An experimental documentary about a group of Cambodian women in Long Beach, California, known as the largest group of hysterically blind people in the world. Hysterical blindness is a psychological condition where one is not able to see despite the absence of physical problems. Ekleipsis traces two histories: the Cambodian Civil War and hysteria, to speak about pathology and agency. To transcend what has been described as the ‘eye-searing’ horrors of war, these women cried themselves into blindness. The Blindness series
		A-028 EKLEIPSIS Kim-Trang T. Tran Experimental, USA, 1998, 22 min, b & w and colour