ALEXIA: METAPHOR AND WORD BLINDNESS
T. Kim-Trang Tran
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Experimental USA 2000 English 0:10:00
The Blindness series.
An experimental video about word-blindness and metaphor. Word-blindness (alexia) is a condition that usually afflicts people who have suffered a stroke, causing them to lose the visual recognition of individual letters but perceive the entire word, or vice versa. Metaphors are here discussed in its function to reveal and obscure perception.
Divided into five short sections, the tape draws a pattern with several motifs—the finger (pointing as one of the earliest forms of language), the moon (contrasting Buddhist and Wittgensteinian philosophies about metaphors and the visible)—to ruminate on language and blindness.
Giambattista Vico's theory on the origin of language is also addressed.