How my husband saw blindness as a ‘dark, paradoxical gift’

For Marilyn Hull, life with her husband, John Hull, changed irrevocably when he went blind as their first child was born – an experience captured in the Bafta-nominated documentary Notes on BlindnessTwo wildly disparate films could be said to frame Marilyn Hull’s life with her husband, John. There’s the extraordinary documentary Notes on Blindness, an intimate, highly inventive rendition of John’s experience of losing all vision in his 40s. And then there is the romantic