A Taste of Happiness
An actor has to play a scene in a film, but it takes quite some time before the director is satisfied.
Nico Crama: Guest of Honour 2
70 minutes
The guest of honour this year is filmmaker and producer Nico Crama. This film programme contains a selection of more than forty films. He is also active as guest programmer and will be showing a number of bis personal favourites. This retrospective is a collaboration between the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, the Netherlands Film Festival and the HAFF.
This program screened as part of HAFF 2004
Showing in this program
Butterfly R.I.P. 1975
An indictment against the rapidly advancing urbanization. The film shows a butterfly in field that flies from one flower to the next. The pleasant scene is disrupted by cut-out pictures of blocks of apartments and flats that leap into view to the sound of a pile driver. The butterfly's end is inevitable.
CubeMenCube
Two cubes, with constantly changeable images and shapes, start to play human games. They get acqainted, fall in love, have little cubes, fight, etcetera.
Mister X
From the moment he is conceived until the day he dies, Mr. X's life seems uneventful.
Oh My Darling
About the transitory nature of life. A devoted father topples from his pedestal as his daughter moves towards adulthood.
Opera Mechanica
Unwittingly man is destroying his world. A single man can't do anything and becomes automatically just one more victim of the perniciously growing conditions of super abundance.
Salut Marie
Archangel Gabriel tells a young housewife that she has been chosen to become the mother of Jesus. Mary's reply is quite contrary to what you would expect.
Self-portrait
A self-portrait in which the destructive element finally gains the upper hand through the lack of cohesion .
Sosoon
About pattern formation and transformation, accompanied by Indian sitar music, composed and performed by Rahul Mahadeo.
Sportflesh
A photograph of a youngster with a football under his arm - filmmaker Gerrit Van Dijk's own son - smoothly changes into an aquarelle and is transformed into various sports figures. Spurred on by an increasingly fanatical public the youngster mutates into a monstrous bundle of muscles. Too much?
The Flowers
Short animation film about a lonely man who constantly picks flowers in his way, which appear out of nowhere.
The Killing of an Egg
True to his cartoonish style full of black humour and gags, Dutch animator Paul Driessen drawns an egg-ception story about a man cracking an egg, until violence turns against him.
