Tacita Dean produced this 16 mm short in Marcel Broodthaers' old studio in Dusseldorf where the “Section Cinéma” in the “Musée d’Art Moderne. Département des Aigles” was opened in 1971. In this project for a fictitious museum, Broodthaers explored how museum institutions operate and their functions of defining and representing artworks. Broodthaers' “Section Cinéma” included a space reserved for film and slide showings and another containing different objects, all of them designated by an inscription made on the object itself or beside it: Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. A, Silence… This fiction enabled Marcel Broodthaers to make an analytical study of the value of the sign and meaning, of the relations that can be established between an object and its own image.

Thirty years later, in a one-woman exhibition, Tacita Dean “rediscovers” Broodthaers' old study, now converted into a city museum storeroom. In several second shots, she makes a kind of inventory of Broodthaers' stencilled signs that still remain on the walls, and of some images of model ships, an allusion to a theme explored by both artists.