Uit het werk van Baruch d'Espinoza Frans van de Staak, Netherlands, 1973, 32min, VOSE [16 mm]

Uit het werk van Baruch d'Espinoza captures groups of young people reciting and reading, not without some difficulty, fragments of Spinoza's Ethics in rural and urban interiors and exteriors of Amsterdam. The 17th-century metaphysical text is brought back into the present, distributed as a common good. Interpreted by different people, whose reading is organized in a way that is somewhere between improvised and structured, the meaning of the text continually shifts.

Rooksporen Frans van de Staak, Netherlands, 1992, 1h 45min, VOSE [16 mm]

Based on the interrogator's questions and the testimonies of the accused and twenty-six witnesses (one for each letter of the alphabet), the audience of Rooksporen must reconstruct an event that the film itself avoids naming. The accused's personality and whether or not a crime was committed are determined through the intricate web woven by the contradictory statements of all the characters.