The cinema’s interest in itself is nothing new. Self reflexive stories can be found in the earliest films. And as the relationships between producers, films and audience have not become less complex since then, it is still worthwhile taking a look in the mirror, into the eyes of the dream machine. The films in this program mostly tell about the failing of this dream and about its seedy underbelly, about hard economic and political realities behind the glitter, about the obsession with cinema and about the hegemony of Holly- and other -woods.