Energy Energy

16mm black & white 7 minutes 1999
Directed by Karel Doing
Music by Pierre Bastien
Distribution Europe: Light Cone
Distribution USA: New York Filmmakers Coop

Found-footage film, compiled from industrial, instructional and promotional films from the first half of the twentieth century, presenting progressive thought and technological development. Rotations, transportation, resources; an imaginary feast of technological inventions.

Found-footage film samengesteld uit bedrijfsfilms, instructiefilms en promotiefilms uit de afgelopen eeuw. Roterende machines, transport, mijnbouw en olieboringen; het vooruitgangsdenken en de technologische ontwikkelingen worden feestelijk gepresenteerd.

Centre Pompidou (Paris, France)
Festival Int. de Cine (Bilbao, Spain)
IFFR (Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
EMAF (Osnabrück, Germany)
Schrottautokino (Hamburg, Germany)
Experimental Film Week (Madrid, Spain)
AFEA (Avignon, France)
Rencontres International (Paris/Berlin, France/Germany)
European Institute of Cinema (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Cinematèque Ontario (Ontario, Canada)
Künstlerhaus Bremen (Bremen, Germany)
Brighton Cinemateque (Brighton, England)
Image Forum Festival (Tokyo, Osaka)
Art Cinema Off Off (Gent, Belgium)
Braquage (Paris, France)
Kod.ex (Paris, France)
Millenium Film Workshop (New York, USA)