Blind Doll (2005)

"Speak! I can't see. Do you understand?"

- Laura

Blind Doll is a nine-minute film short written and directed by French film director Jérémie Damoiseau. Damoiseau conceived the idea of Blind Doll while a student in Los Angeles in the summer of 2004. He drew inspiration for the piece from the works of Vincenzo Natali's Cube and Takeshi Kitano's Dolls. Blind Dolls was first screened at the Los Angeles Film School on October 28th, 2005.

Plot
Laura suffers from hysterical blindness. She awakens with a start inside a dark room. She hears something coming from the window nearby. Scrambling out of bed, she hears the sound of wind chimes as a hand slides down the window glass. A boy's face appears outside the window. Moments later, Laura turns around and finds this mute child standing before her. Growing frantic, she asks him to speak, telling him that she cannot see. The boy is mute. He picks up a doll from the dresser and hands it to her. Laura begins cradling it like a baby. They both stand up and the boy leads her out of the room down a long, underground hallway. They stop and place their hands upon something on the floor. A series of indiscernible images flashes through Laura's mind as she tries to make sense out of what she is feeling. The item they are touching is the body of a dead boy. The mute child stands up, waves to Laura then walks away.

Notes & Trivia

 * Filmed from August 10th to August 12th of 2005.


 * Blind Doll was also screened at the Yokohama Short Shorts Film Festival in August of 2008.


 * The "Blue room" sequences were filmed at the John Kirby studio with the hallway scenes being filmed in the basement of a soundstage (the same basement used for the fight sequences in Fight Club).


 * First acting job for Daeg Faerch. Daeg would go on to play ten-year-old Michael Myers in Rob Zombie's Halloween.