Dingen
Things
Synopsis
Do we see the things themselves or merely their shadows? This famous question by Plato could be the background to Femke Schaap's film which shows us how things - toys, musical instruments, ice skates - are stacked on top of each other. Sometimes we see the shadow first, sometimes the thing itself, in the beginning we see a small stack and in the end we see that this was only the tip of the iceberg. A film about film itself: its ability to show us the world in three dimensions on a flat surface that reflects shadows and its capacity to make a detail seem like the whole and vice versa. (The film was part of the Grote Kunst voor Kleine Mensen project)
Director: Femke Schaap
Country: Netherlands
Year: 2005
Production: 60 Layers of Cake Foundation
Length: 2 minutes
Image/ Sound: colour/sound
Music: none
Projection format: Digital file, 1,37:1
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