A Super-8 film canister becomes both container and canvas in Joseph Beuys's *Der Tisch*, where the humble vessel of magnetic tape and film is transformed through the application of oil paint and an original paper label. True to Beuys's belief in the redemptive and communicative power of everyday materials, the work collapses the boundary between documentation and object, suggesting that meaning resides as much in the physical remnants of an action as in the recorded event itself. The handwritten label anchors the piece in the artist's mythologizing personal iconography, making the canister a relic charged with the weight of Beuys's broader social and artistic vision.