Aletheia
The introductory film in a series about blindness and its metaphors, ‘Aletheia’ draws on journalistic, anecdotal, fictional and theoretical references to explore the relationship between vision, power, desire, race and aesthetics and argues that it is vision itself that constructs lack or absence. Through video montage, found footage, film experiments, and voice over, ‘Aletheia’ is structured through stream-of-consciousness associations about the stylistic preferences perpetuated by American mass media for cosmetic surgery; hysterical blindness and psychoanalytic theory; blind culture; technology and surveillance; the relationship between language and the gaze; sexuality and the fear and fantasy of blindness itself. The series focuses on Asian women in Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Orange County, which has the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam.
Description source: compiled in 2026 by Jess Higgins using the Cinenova paper archive.
