Tradition Is the Handing on of Fire and Not the Worship of Ashes [Tradition ist die Weitergabe des Feuers und nicht die Anbetung der Asche]

The pictures are burning. A house is in flames for exactly one minute. Cinema under attack: An anonymous fragment from the early days of film is turned into a reflection on reproduction and reality as well as on destruction which takes place on two levels through Gustav Deutsch’s reworking of the material.