Frans Zwartjes Movies
- 2006
The Great Magician
The Great Magician52006HD
"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the...
- 1969
Visual Training
Visual Training5.4141969HD
A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.
- 1972
Moving Stills
Moving Stills41972HD
First film by Paul de Nooijer, in collaboration with his artistic father Frans Zwartjes. Moving Stills shows a series of photographs by...
- 1979
Pentimento
Pentimento5.81979HD
In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another....
- 1973
Audition
Audition5.21973HD
Zwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with...
- 1970
Through the Garden and Into the Living
Through the Garden and Into the Living01970HD
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...
- 1971
Living
Living6.71971HD
Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.
- 1982
Medea
Medea71982HD
Frans Zwartjes' adaptation of Euripides' tragedy, originally produced for stage by the actresses Josée Ruiter and Çanci Geraerdts.
- 1970
Behind Your Walls
Behind Your Walls5.21970HD
Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like...
- 1968
Birds, One
Birds, One5.31968HD
A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.
- 1970
Spectator
Spectator61970HD
Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between...
- 1968
A Fan
A Fan2.91968HD
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...
- 1969
Anamnesis
Anamnesis6.21969HD
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...
- 1970
Toilet
Toilet01970HD
Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.
- 1976
It's Me
It's Me51976HD
First full-length experimental feature by filmmaker Zwartjes about an actress, played by Willeke van Ammelrooy, who during the whole film, in...
- 2015
film fragments
film fragments02015HD
A selection of never-before-seen cinema sketches by Zwartjes, compiled by Stanley Schtinter with music from Zwartjes' record Tapes I.
- 1969
Spare Bed-Room
Spare Bed-Room4.51969HD
An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.
- 1968
Dolls
Dolls01968HD
An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.
- 1970
They Are Five
They Are Five01970HD
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...
- 1974
Bedsitters
Bedsitters6.61974HD
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...