Trix Zwartjes Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Two girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. Sexuality is suggested through the weird rhythm of...

To Tea, made in Holland (at the house of the Dutch avant-garde filmmaker Franz Zwartjes), is a slowed ‘Alice in Roomland’.A guide to...

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost. Zwartjes started...

Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.

The central element in this film is formed by the preparation for and execution of a performance. The performance, a parachute jump, is carried out...