Do we see the things themselves or merely their shadows? This famous question by Plato could be the background to Femke Schaap's film which shows us how things - toys, musical instruments, ice skates - are stacked on top of each other. Sometimes we see the shadow first, sometimes the thing itself, in the beginning we see a small stack and in the end we see that this was only the tip of the iceberg. A film about film itself: its ability to show us the world in three dimensions on a flat surface that reflects shadows and its capacity to make a detail seem like the whole and vice versa. (The film was part of the Grote Kunst voor Kleine Mensen project)
directed by: Femke Schaap
year: 2005
duration: 2 minutes
country: Netherlands