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A recipe for veal scallops in a cream sauce, supplemented with a number of more and less savoury images. All of the performers worked independently of each other for this experiment, without knowing what the final taste would be.

The film consists of a number of static landscape shots, in which three actors appear. Two of them – a woman and a man – recite (alternating in German and Dutch) a text by the German writer Friedrich Griese. They are sometimes interrupted by the...

The first experimental film by Meter, in which the camera outside secretly peers through the windows at night in Amsterdam homes.

‘In this film Barbara Meter invokes one of the most abiding and contentious issues in film: that of the...

Continuity shots of/by a Minolta camera: we see a wintery mountain landscape, a runner who crosses over the mountain passes, and riders who are seen from a ski lift and a car. The accompanying music (sitar and organ) and the slowly passing images...

A study of the sculptures of the Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783). Messerschmidt became well known for his ‘character heads’; which were highly realistic pyssionomic studies of conditions such as madness.

Footage from a nature documentary on leopards or lions (a kind of modern locus classicus of the genre) hunt for antelopes, zebras, and wildebeests; the images have been manipulated by changes to the contrast, colour, speed, and/or...

A man and a woman are in a desolate landscape. The camera spies on them; they look around, and stare out into space. The accompanying barrel organ music is overwhelmed by a bombardment of lightning bolts or shellfire.

Gan is a short dance film. A woman lies on a black cloth, and is filmed from above as she improvises dance moves. This creates an alienating effect that sometimes recalls the enchantments from the early days of film....