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Title: BLINDED

Reference number: 8216

Date: 2004

Director: d. Eleanor Yule

Sponsor: Scottish Television, Grampian Television, Scottish Screen, Jim Allison Editing Ltd.

Producer: Oscar van Heek

Production company: Oscar Films in association with Blinded Co-Production LLP

Sound: sound

Original format: HDCam

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 90.00 mins

Description: Blinded tells the story of obsession and murder, loosely based on Emile Zola's Therese Raquin, and retold in a modern day setting. Blinded explores the darker side of sexual desire, proving how hard it is to see the truth - even when the facts are right in front of your eyes.
[synopsis from Scottish Screen Feature Films 2005 brochure]

Originated on HD (1080P). Scripts held at Scottish Screen Archive (3rd draft and 4th draft). This was Eleanor Yule's first feature film.

Credits: Francis Black Peter Mullan
Rachel Black Jodhi May
Mike Hammershoi Anders W. Berthelsen
Bella Black Phyllida Law
Caroline Samantha Bond
PC King Kate Donnolly
Lachie McNeill Kenny Ireland
Angus Blair Ralph Riach
Ulla Hammershoi Jan Wilson

exec. p. Carole Sheridan, Agnes Wilkie
associate p. Bill Gore

w. , d. Eleanor Yule
p. Oscar van Heek
line p. Carolynne Sinclair Kidd
p. co-ordinator Rohanna Law
p. ass. Margaret McDonald
p. accountant Neil Cairns
casting d. Joyce Nettles
casting ass. Louise Cross
publicist Caragh McKay
unit man. Simon Weston
locations Donald McKinnon, Rhian Holt
location trainee Jackie Wylie

1st ass. d. Fay Selby
2nd ass. d. Margaret McDonald
3rd ass. d. Gavin Kinaird
runner Karen Quinn
runner / driver Scott Williamson
sc. supervisor Richard Dilks

d. ph. Jerry Kelly
addit. ph. Michael Miles
focus puller Julie Bills
camera ass. Nora McGoldrick
grip Jamie Coulter
grip ass. Tim Critchell
camera and grip equipment VFG Scotland
cameras provided by Jim Allison Editing
camera equipment Axis Glasgow
gaffer Steve Arthur
spark Davie [David] Thom
lighting equipment Lighttrack

sd. rec. Douglas Kerr
boom operator Kieran Boyne

p. designer Mark Leese
art d. Caroline Grebbell
ass. art d. Martin Kelly
props buyer Lee Porter, Janice MacRae
standby props Jim Elliot
construction Phil Bowen
carpenter Alex Robertson
art dept. runner Roddy Dolan
art dept. trainee Connor MacLean

costume designer Ali Mitchell
costume supervisor Harriet Edmonds
costume ass. Amalie Harper Gow
costume cutter Connie Fairbairn
costume maker Sally Campbell
addit. costume maker Jay Pudelko
addit. costume ass. Alison Johnson

make-up and hair designer Nikki Brannan
make-up ass. Karen Campbell
addit. make-up ass. Noirin O'Connor, Lesley Matthews

stunt co-ordinator Michael Scott-Law
stunt driver Ronnie Morrison
stunt double for Peter Mullan Christian Zanone

stills ph. Mark Hamilton

2nd unit d. Oscar van Heek
2nd unit camera operator Alick Fraser
2nd unit focus puller George Geddes
2nd unit sd. rec. Duncan Reid, Peter Brill

film ed. James Hamilton
trainee ed. Gavin Fryer
online ed. Mark Huskisson
online edit facilities Jim Allison Editing

composer Malcolm Lindsay
vocals Taylor Wilson
violin Greg Lawson
cello Donnie Gillan

sd. post production Savalas
sd. design Gioles Lamb, Douglas McDougall, Micheal MacKinnon
foley ed. Diane Jardine
foley artist Micheal MacKinnon
foley rec. Asser Borgen
ADR rec. Chris Sinclair, Kahl Henderson, Paul Carr
re-recording mixer Chris Sinclair, John Fitzgerald, Kahl Henderson
title design ISO

digital video transfer to 35mm Lipsync Post (London)
head of film services Kevin Phelan
software and technical Simon Burley
film recording operator Chris Thornton, Katja Hoffman
post production supervisor Rohanna Law
insurance Media Insurance Brokers
location catering Argyle Catering
security Drum Location Security
car hire Arnold Clark

Oscar Films would like to thank the following for their support in the making of this film: Beno Antoniades, Arnold Clark Film & TV Equipment, Gabriel Auer, A.W. Lithgow [… et al …]

groove samples AGM The Dark Side of the Groove
loops courtesy of Spectrasonic Liquid Grooves
samples by Garry Garritan

Shotlist: Running from a dark secret, Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi (Anders W. Berthelsen) arrives at Black's estate in the Scottish Borders, looking for work. Cut off from the outside world, Francis Black (Peter Mullan), the blind owner, lives there in a shuttered-up, decaying mansion, with his elderly mother Bella (Phyllida Law).

Francis reluctantly offers the traveller a low-paid job in the yard. Put off by the unsettling atmosphere, Mike declines the offer. But as he turns to go, he sets eyes on Rachel (Jodhi May), Francis' enigmatic young wife, and changes his mind. Mike starts work on the farm, dumping the debris of the Blacks' once-successful business into the mud pit - a bottomless vortex of quicksand at the end of the land.

Mike soon realises that Francis, increasingly embittered by his blindness, exerts a domineering power over Rachel. Rachel, emotionally suffocated by her husband, is increasingly attracted to Mike, whose presence awakens her pent-up sexual desire. Unable to resist each other, they become lovers. As the sexual tension increases, so too does Francis' jealousy rage. In a fit of anger, Francis sacks the traveller. The threat of Mike's departure forces Rachel to choose between her husband and her lover. Unaware of his dark past, Rachel decides to run away with Mike. Seething with fury, Francis stands, knife in hand, by the edge of the mud-pit waiting for the unsuspecting lovers as they prepare to make their escape ...

[Synopsis from BritFilms Catalogue]