1001 Films

• Movies
• 1989-01-01
• NL
• Released
• 0h 8m
• BE
• Documentary

• 5.5
• 4

Production

Koninklijk Belgisch Filmarchief

Storyline

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.