Hands: The Life and Love of a Gentle Sex (1920)

Original title

Hände: Das Leben und die Liebe eines zärtlichen Geschlechts

Directed by

Nicolas Baudy

Genre

fantasy

Country

German Reich

Runtime

13 min

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 6 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 short German experimental film from 1927 tells a story using only hands. The hands act out scenes of life and love without any other body parts or faces appearing.

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What happens

Hände. Das Leben und die Liebe eines zärtlichen Geschlechts ist ein deutscher experimenteller Kurzfilm von Miklós Bándy und Stella Simon von 1927, in dem nur Hände handeln. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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