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Johan van der Keuken filmed with a photographic eye and photographed with a cinematic feel. The Cat was commissioned by Dutch television: fifteen filmmakers were asked to make a series in relay style. Van der Keuken wanted to spice everything up and introduced a cat.

The silent black-and-white film The Private Life of a Cat is an intimate study of a cat who gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as they grow up. It is filmed entirely from the cat’s eye-level.