The 2013/2014 season is given over to the arts within silent film.  For its second guest series at Villa Sträuli, IOIC has selected six early films dealing with the medium of film in various ways. Cameras began turning toward themselves early on, unleashing a chain reaction of self-reflections.  The play of the film within the film entered nearly all the genres, from comedy to tragedy to documentary, all of them taking account of the fact that, slowly but surely, the act of filming was becoming an integral part of reality.