ROLLED UP TIME

contribution # 2 | FILM | screening of a 16 mm film from noud heerkens' archive

in the nineties, the rotterdam goethe-institute moved to the westersingel. _in the basement of the building at the ’s-gravendijkwal some hundred solid black boxes were left behind: the face of germany stored on miles of 16 mm film. _the archive ended up in the hands of the ex-operator, filmmaker, curator and producer noud heerkens. _at the invitation of ocw, heerkens descended into his basement again. _for crimmp_09 he selected a set of three films. _the first one is a film about art, the second one an artfilm and the last is a documentary

each evening the audience decided by majority which one would be projected. _to reduce any mental damage to the minority and all those who missed the event, i videod the three complete films from the screen. _the flickering mini-versions are now availble for viewing on this website via the film menu on the left

what connects the movies is that they were all released in 1980. _ another connective aspect is that they share the tempo with which they divulge their content: in a time where filmmakers appeared to have all the time in the world, the time they sealed in celluloid seems to last longer than it actually does

ps: on friday- and saturday evening, a majority of the audience chose film b: 'theatrum mundi'. _sunday evening film c: 'widerstand gegen hitler/ 20. juli 1944' was preferred