Blind

How do you learn to live independently in a world you cannot see? At the Alabama School for the Blind, students learn to find their way around, use public transport, prepare meals, work and care for themselves. Daily lessons and practical exercises show not only what they are taught but also the ongoing effort to help young people gain as much freedom and independence as possible. Even the short walk from one school corridor to another becomes an important lesson. The film also offers a glimpse inside the school, introducing its rules, the efforts of its staff and differing views on what students need to live independently.

Frederick Wiseman –One of the most important and influential documentary filmmakers,he has made more than 45 films about institutions, districts, and small towns. The principles of his filmmaking: no filmed interviews, no explanatory commentary, no additional music, and a montage that does not structure what is shown on the basis of an otherwise common chronological narration, but orders individual sequences according to rhetorical arguments.