White Wave Productions

Vision
a 16 mm film adaptation of The Field of Vision, a short science fiction story by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Dr. Dawn Hughes is an astronaut who has just returned from a mission where she and her colleagues were exposed to an ancient conversion centre, established by alien missionaries millions of years ago. Each person exposed to this place is brainwashed through his or her primary perceptive mode: Visual people 'see' God, auditory people 'hear' God, and emotional people 'feel' God.

During the trip back to earth, Commander Rogers, the emotional person, is overwhelmed by the experience and dies. Joel Temski, the auditory person, is entranced by the 'sound of God', and becomes catatonic. Dawn Hughes, the visual person, needs to wear dark glasses to shield her from the piercing 'light of God'. Having experienced "Nirvana," and having lost her sight, Dawn plunges into depression upon her return to the banality of earth. But through contact with her best friend, her psychologist, and the other surviving astronaut, she is led to a new appreciation of her life and the world as she knew it before the mission.

Written, Directed, Edited and Produced by Geneviève Appleton.
©White Wave Productions, 1995