THE BLIND OWL (Church of Film)

H., an immigrant in Paris, takes a job as a projectionist in a run down movie theater. From the projection booth, he witnesses a film in which a beautiful dancer seems to be looking right at him, a vision that leads to love, madness, and possibly murder.

THE BLIND OWL is Chilean Surrealist Raul Ruiz’s spinning of Iranian author Sadegh Hedayat’s beloved 1937 novella through dreams and movies, full of ghastly and sublime images. It’s a ghostly reflection on modern mythology, Orientalism, and editing as an act of destruction, considered one of the director’s finest achievements.