ABSTRACT
In many film archives […] fragments are disappearing in the trash. They are difficult to catalogue, and who will ever want to look at them if there is so little knowledge about them? “But they are often so beautiful…,” we regretfully sighed again and again in our weekly meetings. Eventually, the solution turned out to be to make a small collection of the most beautiful fragments. Eric de Kuyper came up with the name of bits & pieces. […] Now these snippets are preserved, each with its own number, and more importantly, they are used, that is: shown. Because all those scraps appear to have been invented to play with, to mix and match them and to transform them into new film experiences.
