Product: NOVA: Mystery of the Senses - Vision (2007)
Rating: 2.0
Unfocused
Nova's Vision DVD is not focused. It has a short section on the actual topic and then digresses to the Art World and a Navajo sand-painting adventure.Vision was somewhat interesting as it described how we see - the eye is the lens and the cortex is the "television screen. But it is more than just the image projected on the cortex. About a third of the brain is devoted to processing what we see. The images we see are a prodigious medium of communication, in which everything is in a halo of meaning. Perception and vision go hand in hand.However, although vision is well described in the first 15-20 minutes, Ackerman causes confusion and digresses to how long it takes to do a Navajo sand-painting (and the spiritual meaning of the painting). We also meet a pop artist who uses comic book "dots" for his paintings. A stroke patient who can see, but does not recognize faces, is given a short feature in Vision as a large part of his cortex was damaged between the artists and methods of painting.This DVD was way too long for the information on vision it provided. When finished, I was not sure if it was about Navajo sand-paintings or how we see. The artists featured took away from the point of the DVD.