Spinoza/Ongodist

Bruno Delgado Ramo

Country
Spain
Year
2021
Screening format
Super 8
Duration
10'50

Synopsis

The film focuses on Baruch Spinoza as a lens maker, dried fruit and nuts trader and a free-thinker (ongodist in old Dutch), trying to draw several associations between Spinoza’s lens grinding machine (featured in Spinoza Museum in Rijnsburg), some daily objects of his time (also displayed in the museum), the film camera as a lens-based machine, an old edition of his Ethica and a set of sounds recorded on location. As for the sound, old magnetic pre-striped Super 8 Kodachrome stock was used and then incorporated unprocessed.

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