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Slow Light

Przemyslaw Adamski & Katarzyna Kijek · Poland · Fantasy / Drama / Animation · 11 min · 10K views

Directed by Przemyslaw Adamski, Katarzyna Kijek · Starring Philip Lenkowsky · 2022

A boy born blind suddenly sees light at seven, but his eyes are so dense that every image takes seven years to reach him, so the world he sees is always the past.

An ingenious premise becomes a poignant, beautifully crafted fable about a life lived seven years behind the present.

A boy who was born blind, suddenly at the age of seven sees a light. A medical examination reveals that his eyes are so dense that it takes seven years for the light to reach the retina and hence for the image to reach h

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