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frans van de staak retrospective
Uit het werk van Baruch d'Espinoza
Frans van de Staak
Netherlands · 1973 · 32'
Screenings
Synopsis
In Uit het werk van Baruch d'Espinoza, groups of young people read and recite passages from Spinoza's Ethics — not without a certain struggle — across indoor and outdoor settings, both rural and urban, around Amsterdam. The 17th-century metaphysical text is pulled into the present and shared as though it belonged to everyone. Voiced by a range of people whose delivery shifts between the improvised and the geometric, the text's meaning keeps changing shape.
Details
- Direction
- Frans van de Staak
- Country
- Netherlands
- Year
- 1973
- Runtime
- 32'
Direction
Frans van de Staak
This film is part of the Frans van de Staak Retrospective. Discover the filmmaker and the other films in this programme.







