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Blind Ambition: The Simon Hill Story
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Blind Ambition: The Simon Hill Story

2011 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

Simon Hill plays blind football, a five-a-side game where sighted rules are stripped away and players track a ball fitted with internal bells by sound alone. Filmmaker Chris Bridger, working out of Bournemouth, follows Hill through training sessions and matches, letting the sound design carry much of the film: the rattle of the ball, shouted directional cues from teammates and a sighted goalkeeper, the thud of collisions at the boards that keep players inside the pitch. Interviews with Hill trace how he came to the sport and what competing at this level demands from someone navigating a pitch without sight, while match footage shows the tactics blind players use to compensate, positioning by echo and memory rather than by eye. The film stays close to Hill personally rather than surveying the sport at large, treating his ambition and daily discipline as the actual subject. It is a small, specific portrait of an athlete built around a game most viewers have never seen played.