A university professor starts to lose his eyesight. | Short Film "A Pinprick of Light"

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Short Film: A Pinprick of Light
Written and Directed by: Kasra Karimi
Produced by: Mohamed Madi, Kasra Karimi
Cast: David King, Sarah Eastwood, Maddie Bradfield

A university professor starts to lose his eyesight and begins to fear his world is slipping away. Could a dream keep alive his memories of what he holds dear?

In a whole backtrace of his own memories and thoughts, John, a university professor begins
one of the most painful journeys: losing his eyesight. While everything around him changes and
evolves, he senses how the entirety of his world starts to tumble and slip out of control. John’s awareness about the change and his new reality strengthen as his little daughter, Rosalind grows up and the last remaining the memory of her young face, built now, only by the reachable sense, his caress. As John’s life seems to fade out, his family lives onward, trying to understand both heavy-hearted and in high spirits this new way of life.

By losing his eyesight, John encounters extreme challenges that go above daily situations,
instead, he faces his biggest fears: immense grief and abandonment: “I can be ignored, treated
as if I did not exist” and at the same time, he learns to cope with what his wife calls, the gift, the
other side of blindness to find his inner peace. This vigorous and inspirational short film
embraces both faces of any degenerative illness, the rough and the positive one, while trying to
internally fight a past one cannot change.

John’s visions incarnate his now impossible wishes and deepest longings of his heart, while his
daughter witnesses his arduous process. Full of deliberate absorption and thought,
this short film encourages us to keep moving, appreciate even the smallest of things, and reside
close to those we love the most.

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Note - Short film used with permission from filmmaker.

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