Dear Jacek

I very much enjoyed seeing your ﬁlm the other day at the AFI . It deﬁnietly has a wonderful surleastic and subconcious touch to it very much like Roman Polanski’s very ﬁrst ﬁlm Knife In The Water (1962). Both of course taking place in a Sailing Boat. The eerie noise of the water ﬂapping, the mechanics of sailing ,the noise of the winches and the sails , the isolation and the silence and wast water and moving spaces , just a small spec of human life isolated in total darkness and suggesting blindness and light. What a joyous experience for all the people on that journey on their day out. The music supplying a great addition of creating that incredible atmosphere which ties the story together with wonderful lighting and divinely visual camera work . Congratulation and good luck.

Peter Medak, Director

It’s a beautifully told story in which the plot doesn’t reveal itself until the very end. I liked the flow of conversation, the build up to their blindness. They were so flat and matter of fact. The mutiny was a surprise. And a question about that… was that anticipated? I wasn’t sure. I think not. Better that way. It’s really an original story. Wonderful. Talk later

Michael Tolkin, writer, screenwriter, director

Hi Jacek

Thanks so much for sending your film. Really beautiful and also haunting….it questions so much how we perceive the World. Bravo You should show it to Terrence Mallick.

Benoit Delhomme, ASC, AFC, cinematographer, director

HI Jacek,

It’s very special . Beautifully shot, acted, and directed and edited I love it. It's like a poem . It’s very tense at times. You worry if someone is going to get hurt or just misstep

Michael Pressman, director, producer, screenwriter

Jacek, This film is stunningly beautiful and really a unique and passionate look into what is like to be blind. It is really a great film. You should be very proud and happy. I will think about ways that it could be better, not sure…

Steve Fierberg, ASC, cinematographer, director

Jacek,

What a lovely, touching story.

Relevant and poetic! Congrats on this first endeavor.

I hope you find the desire to direct some more

🎥🙏

Phedon Papamichael, ASC, GSC, cinematographer, director

Dear Jacek

I forgot this morning to write to you

BUT I love your film. First (or maybe it should be second) this is extremely beautiful, gorgeous B&W, great frames

And very very interesting and touching -not touching,I loved there is no pathos, no sentimentality, but instead respect, dignity and inspiration -portraits. A really great film

Cheers

Denis Lenoir, ASC AFC, cinematographer

Re:Jacek’s Film

Very special little project and looked beautiful

Def submit to festivals like Hollyshorts that qualify for the Academy

Brian J. Goldberg Partner WPA agent

Hey Jacek

I loved your movie! It was so unusual!

It had such a steady forward pace, like the boat, everything moves in tandem. A slow unfolding of mysterious direction. I’ve never seen something that felt quite like it. Of course it’s gorgeous! I die for the shots of the windy grass and it’s too beautiful for words when the guy lies back in the high grass by the water. And your compositions on the boat are beautiful when you follow and create the frames that keep including, like a bloom…it always seems beholden to this pace which feels like their collective pace even though it’s so visual, The flow, the groove is really sublime.

Again, never seen/felt anything like it. Love so much how you find the original woman is blind, then when you know the second guy is blind it’s like ohhhh but that groove gives all of them who speak of their blindness their own drama. Fantastic, just fantastic ♥️

Sensual, It’s like emotional Antonioni. That’s it

Xan Cassavetes, director

Dear Jacek,

I saw your film and enjoyed it very much. It is a compassionate window into the experience of the visually impaired. Hearing them talk amongst each other about what they go through and what it feels like is deeply moving. And depriving us, the viewer, of color, is a very interesting choice as we have to imagine it... The beautiful imagery reminds us of the beauty that perhaps we take for granted most of the time. I only felt sorry for the captain. He seemed to be very attentive to the others, but alas was abandoned by them. I imagine this is a metaphor for them becoming independent and sailing to their own freedom from needing the care of a person with healthy eyesight.

Anyway, congratulations on a beautiful film. Original and very well executed!Thanks so much for sending it!

Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC, cinematographer, director

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