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Logline: A woman wakes up only to find out that she's gone blind.

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SYNOPSIS

“Blind Doll” tells the story of Laura, a beautiful woman experiencing hysterical blindness after she woke up. With the inner panic growing up, she feels a menacing presence is threatening her, An androgenic mute child appears to her and tries to communicate with her. The child brings her with him along a mysterious underground that leads them to a dead body...

Cast :
Erica Rice...
Daeg Faerch.....................
Crew:

Director..................Jeremie Damoiseau
Screenplay.............Jeremie Damoiseau
Director of Photography ......Shawn Grice
Music composer .............Dennis Dreith
Costume Designer .......... Lindsey Nelsen
Production Design............................Jeremie Damoiseau
Art directors......................... Carlo Garduno, ................Sheree Groves
Editing........................Jeremie Damoiseau
Production Sound....................Jose Chairez
1st Assistant Director...... Paul D. Hart

Copyright 2005

Format mini-DV with 35mm PS-teknik adapter

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Writer-director JEREMIE DAMOISEAU had the idea of “Blind Doll” in the summer of 2004. With the working title of “The Blind House”, it took him almost a year to go from a concept to an actual screenplay. It was originaly conceived more as a high concept horror thriller, set in a glass house, which could quickly become an expensive short film for a French director freshly arrived to Los Angeles.

Of his idea, Jeremie Damoiseau says: “The concept first came into my mind with the idea of a blind woman who would recover her sight and would have to adapt to seeing objects, colors and watching herself in a mirror. Subsequently I asked myself about the opposite course: losing the use of its eyes and the trauma that it may cause. This idea attracted me more because of the atmosphere and climax I could recreate from that. The movie I had in mind was like a cousin to Vincenzo Natali's “Cube”, with a touch of Takeshi Kitano's “Dolls” and “Zatoichi”.”

Damoiseau continues: “I was never interested in how or why this woman has gone blind. I like the idea of not being told the reasons and accepting the situation as a fact. Like in “Cube”, it’s a concept that has to be acknowledged by the audience from the start. “Cube” is a good reference, because the lack of any explanation makes it more intriguing and mysterious.”

As opposed to contruct a convulated plot, Jeremie Damoiseau wanted “Blind Doll” to be an unusual visual film and had a precise vision for the look of his film: “I imagined the frames as some sort of futuristic Edward Hopper paintings, like his portraits of lonely women in empty rooms. There is also a portrait by Egon Schiele of a seated woman with a bent knee that was resonant to me to apprehend and film Laura.”

“I had a very abstract space in mind for the room. I wanted to make the audience blind too. I intended to alternate dark scenes and overexposed shots, intense lighting, blue and white colors, and try to express a sense of void. The pace of the film would be both meditative and chilling, smooth and violent, somehow in the way of Takeshi Kitano’s movies.”

“My interest in handicaps and paralyzing flaws probably comes from the haunting figure of my father’s elder brother who was physically and mentally ill. Also, one of my first shorts, called “T.V.: Talking Vision”, was about a teenager who couldn’t speak and had to express himself through clips from films he had seen before with a TV plugged into his brain.”

“Blind Doll” was shot during the course of three days in Los Angeles. The underground location is a huge basement located underneath a Downtown soundstage, famous for having served the productions of “Fight Club” and numerous horror films. The blue room scenes were filmed at the John Kirby Studio, which was formerly occupied by Mike Tyson before he was arrested, and also Frank Sinatra recorded his early records there.