Menno de Nooijer

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This is a film, that was a picture. What’s the difference? Photography takes time away, film adds time.

Two men in chairs by the open hearth; photos move in front of their heads.

Menno de Nooijer had previously collaborated on Paul's films, but this one marks the launch of a directors' team that lasts until today. Two man stick their heads through a decor, photographs revolve around their heads. Unfettered reflection on their own work, the basic assumption being a quote from 18th-century writer Horace Walpole, which also appears in other titles of their films: 'Nobody had informed me that at one view - I should see a palace, a town, a fortified city, - temples on high places […]'. In 1989, this film was granted the jury award at the Holland Animation Film Festival. (filmcommission.nl)

It’s always party time with the De Nooijer family at home. Innocent pleasure or a political film?