Amy Guggenheim
When a gifted young musician begins to lose the ability to trust her own perception, she must come to terms with the past that has been driving her life before she loses the musicâand the futureâshe has been fighting for.
At its heart, Blindsight is about the ways we learn to survive by avoiding what we cannot bear to feel. The stories we live by quietly shape what we notice, what we ignore, the futures we imagine as possible, and where we believe we belong. Blindsight explores what can happen when our familiar way of seeing the world begins to change.
Writer/Director
CURRENT PROJECTS
BLINDSIGHTâ (in development)
HOLDING THE CENTER
Someone changes when two beings meet.
Set in New York and Tokyo. Three lives. Entangled. A fourth presence. Not human. A dramatic feature film inspired by Kendo - a Japanese martial art based on relationship, and the space between us.
BIO - AMY GUGGENHEIM
Amy Guggenheim is a writer and director whose work explores perception, awareness, and human relationships. A recipient of a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts Artist Fellowship, her award-winning short Blindsight is now being developed as a feature. She is also developing Holding the Center, inspired by her twenty-five years of practicing kendo. Her work has been described as "hauntingly poetic" and seeks to reveal our capacity for insight, empathy, and meaningful connection. She leads the Vision Room, an interdisciplinary space for creative practice at Pratt Institute.
SELECTED SUPPORT
Fellowships and Grants:
Fulbright Fellowship
American Embassy Travel Specialist
Asian Cultural Council Fellowship
New York State Council on the Arts Film/Video Grant
The Banff Center on the Arts and Creativity
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Puffin Foundation
Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York Foundation
Pano Network Post Production Grant
NYWIFT Featured Special Project
REVIEWS AND RECOGNITION
Festivals and Awards
Anthology Film Archives
Centre Pompidou
São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Wallachia International Film Festival
Selected international screenings in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the United States.
View a complete list of screenings, festivals, and awards at BlindsightFilm.net.
Interviews:
"Cinema has long served as a mirror through which we examine ourselves, our relationships, and the world we inhabit. Few filmmakers explore these questions with the depth and sensitivity of Amy Guggenheim."
PR Carnet
In Conversation with Amy Guggenheim â Read the full interview here:
Filmmaker Amy Guggenheim
The NYWIFT Podcast (New York Women in Film & Television)
Amy Guggenheim discusses adapting her psychological drama Blindsight from a short film into a feature, and her approach to perception, music, and cinematic storytelling.
Listen â
Selected Critical Response:
âAmy demonstrates her exceptional skills as a filmmaker, particularly as a director....This heartwarming exploration of the human condition, centered around the transformative power of self-awareness, is masterfully brought to life.â - Wallachia International Film Festival Jury
In a very short time, Amy Guggenheim leads the audience where she wants themâŠ. A corpse is hardly necessary. Compact. Concentrated. Classy - The Hannover Times (Germany)
Guggenheimâs work depicts the domestic but the content is universal. Love and death, laughter and sorrow, boredom and anger. We can abandon our skepticism and share her adventurous imagination. - The News (Mexico City)
Her work plays with how our isolated, fragmented selves discover ways to exist both alone and with others, ultimately leading to freedom and joy. - Nancy David, The Observer (New York)
DIRECTION
Previous Work - Writer/Director
Previous Work - Writer/Director
Blindsight Scene
A glimpse into the feature - a story about memory, love and the limits of perception.
Dawn
A poetic prelude to Holding the Center.
The Snake and the Parrot
A cinematic fable about desire between former lovers.
Amy Guggenheim
WRITER/DIRECTOR
When a gifted young musician begins to lose the ability to trust her own perception, she must come to terms with the past that has been driving her life before she loses the musicâand the futureâshe has been fighting for.
At its heart, Blindsight is about the ways we learn to survive by avoiding what we cannot bear to feel. The stories we live by quietly shape what we notice, what we ignore, the futures we imagine as possible, and where we believe we belong. Blindsight explores what can happen when our familiar way of seeing the world begins to change.
Writer/Director
CURRENT PROJECTS
BLINDSIGHTâ (in development)
HOLDING THE CENTER
Someone changes when two beings meet.
Set in New York and Tokyo. Three lives. Entangled. A fourth presence. Not human. A dramatic feature film inspired by Kendo - a Japanese martial art based on relationship, and the space between us.
BIO - AMY GUGGENHEIM
Amy Guggenheim is a writer and director whose work explores perception, awareness, and human relationships. A recipient of a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts Artist Fellowship, her award-winning short Blindsight is now being developed as a feature. She is also developing Holding the Center, inspired by her twenty-five years of practicing kendo. Her work has been described as "hauntingly poetic" and seeks to reveal our capacity for insight, empathy, and meaningful connection. She leads the Vision Room, an interdisciplinary space for creative practice at Pratt Institute.
SELECTED SUPPORT
Fellowships and Grants:
Fulbright Fellowship
American Embassy Travel Specialist
Asian Cultural Council Fellowship
New York State Council on the Arts Film/Video Grant
The Banff Center on the Arts and Creativity
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Puffin Foundation
Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York Foundation
Pano Network Post Production Grant
NYWIFT Featured Special Project
REVIEWS AND RECOGNITION
Festivals and Awards
Anthology Film Archives
Centre Pompidou
São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Wallachia International Film Festival
Selected international screenings in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the United States.
View a complete list of screenings, festivals, and awards at BlindsightFilm.net.
Interviews:
"Cinema has long served as a mirror through which we examine ourselves, our relationships, and the world we inhabit. Few filmmakers explore these questions with the depth and sensitivity of Amy Guggenheim."
PR Carnet
In Conversation with Amy Guggenheim â Read the full interview here:
Filmmaker Amy Guggenheim
The NYWIFT Podcast (New York Women in Film & Television)
Amy Guggenheim discusses adapting her psychological drama Blindsight from a short film into a feature, and her approach to perception, music, and cinematic storytelling.
Listen â
Selected Critical Response:
âAmy demonstrates her exceptional skills as a filmmaker, particularly as a director....This heartwarming exploration of the human condition, centered around the transformative power of self-awareness, is masterfully brought to life.â - Wallachia International Film Festival Jury
In a very short time, Amy Guggenheim leads the audience where she wants themâŠ. A corpse is hardly necessary. Compact. Concentrated. Classy - The Hannover Times (Germany)
Guggenheimâs work depicts the domestic but the content is universal. Love and death, laughter and sorrow, boredom and anger. We can abandon our skepticism and share her adventurous imagination. - The News (Mexico City)
Her work plays with how our isolated, fragmented selves discover ways to exist both alone and with others, ultimately leading to freedom and joy. - Nancy David, The Observer (New York)
DIRECTION
Previous Work - Writer/Director
Previous Work - Writer/Director
Blindsight Scene
A glimpse into the feature - a story about memory, love and the limits of perception.
Research photographs for Holding the Center: kendo and iaidÅ at Noma Dojo, Japan.
Dawn
A poetic prelude to Holding the Center.
The Snake and the Parrot
A cinematic fable about desire between former lovers.