amaurosis
Original language title: [same]

Country of production: USA
Year: 2002
Language: English
28 mins.

Award-winning guitarist Nguyen Duc Dat was a triple outcast: blind, Amerasian, and orphaned. amaurosis explores his time living on the streets, selling lottery tickets for money, emigrating from Viet Nam to America, and establishing himself as a guitar virtuoso. This is a touching portrait of a very talented man.

Director: Tran, T. Kim-Trang
Script: Tran, T. Kim-Trang
Cinematography: Tran, T. Kim-Trang
Music: Nguyen Duc Dat and Bayadera
Editing: Tran, T. Kim-Trang
Sound: Tran, T. Kim-Trang and Michael Kowalski
Producer: Tran, T. Kim-Trang
Production Company: Feet Unbound Productions
Source:
Video Data Bank
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603, USA
info@vdb.org

Tran, T. Kim-Trang was born in Viet Nam and emigrated to the United States in 1975. She received a degree from the California Institute of the Arts and has been producing videos since the early 1990s. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and elsewhere. amaurosis is part of an eight-tape series investigating blindness and its metaphors. Tran was a 2001 Rockefeller Fellow.

Saturday, March 29
9pm
Gallery Theatre
Screening with THE DEVIL'S APPRENTICE