

A Touch
2008-08-27 · 12 min · ★ 5.5
A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind. Fog and mist, shadows of people in the city and by the water… Silhouettes that fade and turn into pure light and shadow until we discern the specks and scratches on the film strip itself. Sometimes, for a fraction of a second, a face, a person. A film as a memory that eludes us.
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- Directors
- Barbara Meter
- Production companies
- Nederlands Fonds voor de Film
- Countries
- Netherlands
- Status
- Released
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