Black Sun

Gary Tarn’s deeply affecting début feature tells the story of French artist and filmmaker, Hugues de Montalembert.  In New York City in 1978, de Montalembert was blinded during a violent assault. Tarn combines the artist’s powerful and poetic voice with stunning visuals and a haunting original score to cinematically articulate the immediate and longer-term consequences of this devastating loss of sight.  As de Montalembert reflects on his singular perception of the world, a portrait emerges of a unique man and his extraordinary reaction to a life-changing trauma. Tarn’s film is a gorgeous and haunting meditation on a life filled with inner vision, for de Montalembert still very much sees the light.