Spotting a Cow (Het scheppen van een koe) (1983)

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"DIR: Paul Driessen SUMMARY: A narrator spins a series of abortive yarns and as each one dissolves into an ink blot, they slowly make up the pattern on a cow's skin. WHY IT'S HERE: Dutch director Paul Driessen's 'Spotting a Cow', like Aleksandr Tatarskiy's 'Snow Was Falling Last Year', begins with a narrator who cannot quite settle on a story. In this case, however, the narrator never finds his story but instead reveals himself to be more interested in the pattern his abortive story attempts "