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Grounds, Premises

Grounds, Premises

2025 · 16 min · Documentary

Grounds, Premises takes the opening scene of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space to consider intention and failure. What emerges is a treatise on the creative process with the emphasis on process rather than result. This film was made while teaching a film production course at a castle in the South of the Netherlands, and is dedicated to our fleeting time together.

Directed by Bram Ruiter

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