Experiencing Interruptions?

Blind Eye

Isaac is obsessed – obsessed with getting the perfect body, obsessed with eating the right food, obsessed with becoming better. He’ll do anything to get his ex back, even if that means sacrificing his vision.

  • Lyndon Henley Hanrahan
    Director
  • Lyndon Henley Hanrahan
    Writer
  • Castor Sprado
    Producer
  • Conor Joseph
    Key Cast
  • Bradley Turner
    Key Cast
  • Catarina Scarpellini
    Cinematographer
  • James Simpson
    Editor
  • Tobias Haswell
    Sound Designer
  • John Young
    Composer
  • Maya Espinet
    Casting
  • Amy Keenlyside
    Hair and Make-up
  • Aragorn Horner
    Production Designer
  • Fox Bamber Baron
    Colourist
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Body horror, romance, drama
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 41 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 30, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    400 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:37:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - National Film & Television School
Director Biography - Lyndon Henley Hanrahan

Lyndon is a Canadian/American/Irish filmmaker whose work has played at BAFTA and Oscar-qualifying film festivals. Through dark humour, his work explores performativity, queerness, history, and fantasy. He is a Marshall Scholar, Belinale Talent, and Séries Mania Writers Campus resident. He is an alumnus of Harvard, Cambridge, and the Royal College of Art and a fiction director at the National Film & Television School. Outside of making short films, Lyndon writes for nonfiction TV series. He was nominated for an Emmy for his work on “The Book of Queer.”

Lyndon's films have been screened at numerous Oscar-qualifying festivals around the world. He is a 2023 Berlinale Talent, a 2022 participant of the UGC Writer’s Campus at Series Mania, and a 2019 Marshall Scholar. Furthermore Lyndon co-founded Donkey Tail Productions, a film and theater company that champions queer stories. Outside of his filmmaking practice, he works as a TV writer. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for his work on The Book of Queer for Discover+.

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Director Statement

Queer people have always had complicated relationships with their bodies. For gay men, there is a pervasive and deleterious pressure to have the ideal body – masculine, groomed, lean, and sculpted with muscle. Within gay male social spaces, we are taught to strive for this impossible standard and made to judge ourselves for falling short. It is no wonder that gay men are at a far higher risk of developing eating disorders than straight men.

BLIND EYE explores the psychology of an eating disorder and its impact on a relationship. Flitting between romance and body horror, it tells the story of a man projecting his insecurities onto the person he loves and the extreme lengths he goes to eliminate those perceived flaws. It is a story that many of us have told ourselves over and over again: if we make ourselves look better, then we will be enviable, desirable, and maybe even loveable.

But that compulsion has a way of closing us off others. In the throes of an eating disorder, we become so fixated on our body image that we struggle to look beyond ourselves. Ultimately, the obsession with looking a certain way blinds us both to the body we sought to perfect and the people for whom we sought to perfect it.