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Beauty (1970)

Beauty poster
Directed by
Johan van der Keuken
Genre
experimental film
Country
Netherlands
Runtime
22 min
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This short experimental film examines how violence shapes our understanding of reality. It presents a series of images without a conventional story.

contemplativeabstractobservationalvisualstarkthought-provokingminimalistnon-narrative

What happens

Beauty (De schoonheid) est un court-métrage néerlandais réalisé par Johan van der Keuken en 1970. Le cinéaste explore dans ce film ses thèmes récurrents, la violence et la perception de la réalité. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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