Histoire de Détective (1929)

Original title

Histoire de détective

Directed by

Charles Dekeukeleire

Genre

adventure film

Country

Belgium

Runtime

50 min

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a short Belgian silent film from the avant-garde period. It plays with the conventions of a detective story through abstract imagery and fast editing.

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What happens

Histoire de Détective (1929) is the third film by the Belgian director Charles Dekeukeleire. The film belongs to Dekeukeleire's avant-garde period and exudes the influence of the different avant-garde strands in Europe. Besides Histoire de Détective Dekeukeleire made three other avant-garde films: Combat de Boxe (1927), Impatience (1928) and Witte Vlam (1930). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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