Frans Zwartjes Movies

  • 2006
    The Great Magician

    The Great Magician

    The Great Magician

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    "The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the...

    The Great Magician
  • 1969
    Visual Training

    Visual Training

    Visual Training

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    A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.

    Visual Training
  • 1972
    Moving Stills

    Moving Stills

    Moving Stills

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    First film by Paul de Nooijer, in collaboration with his artistic father Frans Zwartjes. Moving Stills shows a series of photographs by...

    Moving Stills
  • 1979
    Pentimento

    Pentimento

    Pentimento

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    In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another....

    Pentimento
  • 1973
    Audition

    Audition

    Audition

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    Zwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with...

    Audition
  • 1970
    Through the Garden and Into the Living

    Through the Garden and Into the Living

    Through the Garden and Into the Living

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    Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the grass and people at the table. A film from the series...

    Through the Garden and Into the Living
  • 1971
    Living

    Living

    Living

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    Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.

    Living
  • 1982
    Medea

    Medea

    Medea

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    Frans Zwartjes' adaptation of Euripides' tragedy, originally produced for stage by the actresses Josée Ruiter and Çanci Geraerdts.

    Medea
  • 1970
    Behind Your Walls

    Behind Your Walls

    Behind Your Walls

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    Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like...

    Behind Your Walls
  • 1968
    Birds, One

    Birds, One

    Birds, One

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    A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.

    Birds, One
  • 1970
    Spectator

    Spectator

    Spectator

    61970HD

    Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between...

    Spectator
  • 1968
    A Fan

    A Fan

    A Fan

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    A man in drag sits on a couch holding a fan. The wallpaper behind him is floral patterned. Although the man does little more than looking around and...

    A Fan
  • 1969
    Anamnesis

    Anamnesis

    Anamnesis

    6.21969HD

    Film in three parts. A man and a woman, Trix Zwartjes and Lodewijk de Boer (Zwartjes’s regular actors) circle around each other in a house and...

    Anamnesis
  • 1970
    Toilet

    Toilet

    Toilet

    01970HD

    Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.

    Toilet
  • 1976
    It's Me

    It's Me

    It's Me

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    First full-length experimental feature by filmmaker Zwartjes about an actress, played by Willeke van Ammelrooy, who during the whole film, in...

    It's Me
  • 2015
    film fragments

    film fragments

    film fragments

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    A selection of never-before-seen cinema sketches by Zwartjes, compiled by Stanley Schtinter with music from Zwartjes' record Tapes I.

    film fragments
  • 1969
    Spare Bed-Room

    Spare Bed-Room

    Spare Bed-Room

    4.51969HD

    An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.

    Spare Bed-Room
  • 1968
    Dolls

    Dolls

    Dolls

    01968HD

    An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

    Dolls
  • 1970
    They Are Five

    They Are Five

    They Are Five

    01970HD

    In this experimental film we see people in varying combinations walking and crawling through sand and grass and along the waterfront in a very quick...

    They Are Five
  • 1974
    Bedsitters

    Bedsitters

    Bedsitters

    6.61974HD

    Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space...

    Bedsitters