The Blindness Series - amaurosis
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29m
amaurosis is an experimental documentary about Dat Nguyen, a blind guitarist living in Little Saigon, Orange County, California. Dat Nguyen was a "triple outcast": blind, Amerasian, and an impoverished orphan. His American father left Viet Nam in 1973, and his mother died in 1975. Living on the streets of Saigon, he sold lottery tickets for food money. At the age of 12, Dat met a classical music teacher who was also blind and who taught him to read Braille as well as supported him. When he was 18, Dat heard Segovia played for the first time on his teacher's radio and became hooked on classical guitar. Several years later, he learned that Amerasian children could immigrate to the U.S. under a new program, and thus began his life in the States.
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