An adventure film, a journey into light.
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"This film is dedicated to Joseph Plateau, the discoverer of the cinematographic principle, who while exploring the inertia of perception stared into the sun until he was blinded. I made this film because I love the ending of the Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe.”
Werner Nekes1
“Radical rejection and enthusiastic approval: Photophthalmia took part in the contest of the Internationale Filmwoche Mannheim 1976: "Werner Nekes' Photophthalmia was one of the few experimental contributions to this film festival. In a ‘play on light’ Werner Nekes remains true to himself: fragmentary images that harden and dissolve again are conceived as the film version to a travel tale through Alaska. They are also the homage to one of the fathers of cinematography, Joseph Plateau, blinded in the course of his research. The Nekes opus ends accordingly with minutes of a white and empty screen.”2
