Short film
1001 Films
1989 · 8 min
A hushed, dreamlike drift through dark corridors and flickering fragments, quiet and contemplative, rewarding patience with a sense of rediscovery.
- Directed by
- André Delvaux
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Louise Brooks
- Overview
- An ode to film preservation, it presents a night-time visit to a seemingly depopulated repository (presumably the Royal Film Archive of Belgium), juxtaposing a series of images of observation, reconstruction, and projection using film fragments - from the hand-painted, altered image frames of Georges Méliès' Kingdom of the Fairies to the iconic image of Louise Brooks - to turn the archive into a temporal wonderland of novel discoveries, hidden treasure, re-awakened curiosity, and critical re-assessment.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Memory, art, isolation
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- André Delvaux
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Louise Brooks
