1. The film is a superposition van 6 to 8 takes. In each take a piece of white paper, positioned horizontally, was moved by hand in front of the running camera. 2. In a sense the subject is the sensitive layer of the film. The filmed object is very simple: a white plane, delimited on one side. By moving this plane, and by an eightfold exposure of the film, an image arises of horizontal bands in various shades of grey. The film is without sound, which allows the audience to think up its own music to the film. 3. The idea is not very clear. There is more than one: - The intention was to make a flat film. (The illusion of perspective depth is one of the means of the common film by which the spectator is deceived). The screen is flat, and so the projected image should be flat and not suggest any depth. - A number of elements, each with his own movement, do have relations, sometimes wanted, sometimes not wanted... This looks like... . - A landscape unknown by men, barren, uninhabitable, moving eternally... . (Bart Vegter, Hyères, 1981) 4. Pacifying flat film; with moving horizontal surfaces in various tints of grey. (Filmbank, '04)
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