Songs for Four Hands
A man and a woman converse wordlessly. An essential film dialogue. The accompanying sound was created by playing a chord from a Mahler symphony...
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A short film with shots of sculptures by Anneke Walvoort. The materiality of film plays an important role: visible grain, flashes of colour...
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Part of the Zuiver Film collection.
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An image of early twentieth century Germany rises from a collage of family photographs and landscapes. Meter used the photo albums of her parents...
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Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain...
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In her recent film Up to the Sky and Much Much More, Meter uses letters sent to her by her father during World War II to provide the film's...
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The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The...
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A Young man is interested in the girl next door, but also discovers that he is not insensitive to a boy, with whom he has dress-up parties in the...
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“Convalescing, when you don't have to participate in the world. Time to read, to dream, to look - the blue, the light of the television, the blue...
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Short film by Barbara Meter.
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Part of the Zuiver Film collection.
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Barbara Meter's first experimental film. From outside, the handheld camera surreptitiously peers at life in the living rooms of nocturnal...
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A rhythmical montage made from old photographs and films in which past and present merge.
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A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind. Fog and mist, shadows of people...
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Little Stabs
A film by Barbara Meter
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A day in the life of an old Ottoman bath with the bath itself as the main character -- from dawn till dusk, where the light, the mirroring in the...
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They can be seen in the whole of Greece: the small and humble buildings along the roadside dedicated to a saint. Often a burning candle illuminates...
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...And a Table
A man and a woman sit in front of a window and eat breakfast. Through the window, we see the countryside. During the day, they remain seated at the...
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