Partially sighted

What would/does the world look like to someone that is partially sighted/blind?
I think this idea ties into my project very well and would definitely be a good idea to further investigate.

Recommendations

I have been reccommended some of these films to research for my project.

Perverts guide to cinema (vol 1-3)
'Personna' by Ingmar Burgman
'Dreams that money can buy' by Hans Richter
'Solaris' and 'Mirrors' by Tarkovsky.
The driving bell and the butterfly' by Julian Schnabel and Jean Dominique Bauby
'Playtime' by Jacques Tati

Also research more on Brakhage and others.

Ways of Achieving my ideas

A way of obscuring the image which I am interested in is using filters on the camera lens.
I would shoot film footage of all kinds while experimenting with different filters to see what effects I get and how this distorts the image.
I was also thinking that for the viewer, in order for them to interpret the image I would have to have some sort of natural soundtrack to help them determine the imagery.
I need to create and look out for all different types of filters, natural, man made, etc

My Ideas and what I hope to achieve.

I want to distort the image in some way so as to make it 'new' again, indistinguishable.
I want to create abstract and aesthetically interesting images, to make objects or scenes difficult to interpret straight away.
I want to create a new sense of unknowing and new vision.
I want to obscure the visual perception.
I want to reduce objects to the minimal criteria for identification.

Stan Brakhage

I found Stan Brakhage to be really interesting. I loved his idea of the 'unruling eye'.

Metaphores on Vision '64
What is the nature of the moving world and how can it be represented?
Distorted visual reality and questioning of the screen.
What we see as reality. Our 'ruling' eye. He transforms images, leaves us guessing what it is we are looking at.
'Act of seeing the world'
Brakhage intended to film not the world itself but the act of seeing the world. Brakhage's films were themselves expressions of a single, great metaphor: visual perception.

This quote from his essay Metaphores on Vision is definately something I hope to look into for this project.
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, and eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'

Some points to start working from

Not paying attention to what we are looking at. We seem like robots while watching the screen
The screen has many functions
It provides info we consume more or less passively.
It is a mediator.
Representation meets reality.
Representation of space and our relationship to it.
Different ways of representing reality. Using the screen. What do we automatically assume when we watch tv?

New Project -Interrupting the Screen

Today we can hardly even imagine a day without computer, television or other screens
surrounding us. Nevertheless, we hardly pay any attention to the screens themselves,
but use them as if they had always existed. We use screens for many functions, they
may entertain and display information; some are used interactively, others provide
information that we consume more or less passively. Screens also have many different
sizes and shapes and different technologies are used to implement the necessary
functions.
…(the) screen does not have an immutable identity, but has its own history, influenced by cultural, social, technological and ideological factors. Screen is not a goal in and for itself, but its purpose is to represent information, communication, figures, faces and virtual realms. It is a mediator.

Jarmo Hiipakka, Art and Science in Historical and Cultural Context

Think about the quotation above and about how we relate to the physical, temporal, spatial and/or cultural nature of the screen and/or its use in art, communications, science,entertainment or any other field that interests you. Research and analyse the work of video artists and other screen based artworks that deal with the nature of televisual experience. Address this theme in video, video installation or photographic format. Interpret it as you will,considering its relevance to your own artistic development. Identify and address how your work will be presented to an audience.