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14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city.
Himself
While filming a portrait of Dutch filmmaker Jaap Pieters, he evoked memories of a Lebanese friend who had disappeared, and his desire to trace his footsteps / to track him down. This project matched our own desire to learn about the state of Lebanese cinema today. We offered Jaap Pieters to travel together to Lebanon to seek out filmmakers doing research on the moving image. We met Mahmoud Hojeij, Nadim Tabet, Ghassan Salhab, Nesrine Khodr and Lamia Joreige.
Himself
Jaap Pieters passionately takes photographs and films, mainly on Super8, of the world around him: vagabonds, drunkards, striking incidence of light, the beauty of decay. In this way he has built up an oeuvre that is appreciated by a small group of film lovers all over the world. In his house, he keeps thousands of negatives and films that have never been developed due to chronic lack of money. He also collects anything in which he sees a glimmer, such as bags of sugar from restaurants where he once had ice cream with his parents, books, records, CDs, vases, glasses, be they broken or not. His girlfriend, with whom he has tried in vain to live together for 26 years, comes to helping create some order in the chaos. With his favourite uncle, the poet H.H. ter Balkt, he reminisces. ‘Two autists together’, but above all Jaap continues to film: now elderly men with whom he feels some bond.
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At Michel's home in Zurich, the shade of flowers dance upon a window curtain.
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A furious man with a bottle and can...
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A silver-coloured tarp undulates over a field.
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Kindergarteners make numerous attempts to lift a pumpkin.
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A tree stands at the foot a towering wooden structure in Istanbul.
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A fearless young woman cleans the outer windows of an upper floor.
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The bottom of the river is dug up then dumped again.
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A visual chain of 'encounters' in which the camera is moved by the movement of the people. A chain-reaction as a domino-row where our eye is forced to follow the next & the next & the next....
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A man stands on a sidewalk, holding a model airplane aloft...
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From his bedroom window on the second floor, Pieters films the unloading of meat.
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High stacks of cups wobble unsteadily on a running washing machine.
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A man stands in the middle of the market, playing a stringless ukulele.
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Kim, a dancer, gets a foot massage from Steven, a drummer.
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This silent film provokes the anger of the man in our heads, the anger we can see but can't hear & at the same time the man tries to acquire something from the passers-by that either seems to be ignored, not understood or not available... & again the anger bursts out....
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A homeless man in a street-worker’s jacket enthusiastically regulates traffic in De Pijp.
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A homeless man tries to keep his daily movements in line and order... The intimacy of a private life on the street, filmed from the inside of a third floor apartment.
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A man is trying to put empty cans into his torn coat pockets. There appear to be more and more cans lying on the street.
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A portrait of Jaap's good friend Willem.
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Синематон» - 201-часовой фильм французского режиссёра Жерара Куранта. Он считается одним из самых длинных фильмов когда-либо выпущенных. Создающийся более 35 лет (с 1978 по 2018), он состоит из серии 3027 беззвучных виньеток, каждая продолжительностью по 3 минуты 25 секунд, в которых показываются различные знаменитости, художники, журналисты и друзья режиссёра, каждый делающий то, что он хочет, за отведённое время. В фильме показаны режиссёры: Барбет Шредер, Нагиса Осима, Фолькер Шлендорф, Кен Лоуч, Юсеф Шахин, Вим Вендерс, Джозеф Лоузи, Жан-Люк Годар, Сэмюэл Фуллер и Терри Гиллиам; гроссмейстер Жоэль Лотье и актёры Роберто Бениньи, Стефан Одран и Жюли Дельпи. Терри Гиллиам показан поедающим купюру в 100 франков. Сэмюэл Фуллер курит сигару. Своим любимым героем фильма Жерар Курант считает семимесячного ребёнка.
