1001 Films (1989)

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.

Released

1989-01-01

Genres

Documentary

Runtime

8 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

André Delvaux

TMDB rating

6.0/10 from 6 votes