The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough
★ 9.5 · 1981 · 32m · Documentary
A film that uses literary, structural, autobiographical, and performance metaphors to construct a series of tableaux that evoke the act of vision, the limits of perception, and the rapture of space.
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