Barbara Meter Trailers
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Barbara Meter finished the Dutch Film Academy in 1963 and got an MA Film and video at the London School of Printing in 1995. Meter was co-founder of Electric Cinema, in the early 70's a bastion of Dutch experimental cinema. Meter has made many experimental short films, and also some feature films and documentaries. She also worked as a curator of film programs, teacher and free-lance lecturer on film.
Most Popular Barbara Meter Trailers
Total trailers found: 33
27 August 1972
Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role.
01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
01 January 1988
After eight years of feminist activism, ANDANTE MA NON TROPPO was Meters’ first step back towards experimental film.
01 January 1971
A man and a woman sit in front of a window and eat breakfast. Through the window, we see the countryside.
01 January 2001
Often the images are held for awhile and then left to themselves - only to fade out just as they begin to move.
01 January 1985
The film has elements of documentary, narrative and avant-garde. In a big house a party is taking place.
01 January 1982
A very impressive film is Barbara Meter's 'Distance to Nearby.' The film is a dramatic reconstruction of memory.
01 August 1965
a man with a moped and groups of boys (one in particular) are in conflict, which sometimes turns into erotic play.
01 January 2007
They can be seen in the whole of Greece: the small and humble buildings along the roadside dedicated to a saint.
25 August 1970
Barbara Meter's first experimental film. From outside, the handheld camera surreptitiously peers at life in the living rooms of nocturnal Amsterdam.
26 August 2003
Short film by Barbara Meter.
27 August 2000
“Convalescing, when you don't have to participate in the world. Time to read, to dream, to look - the blue, the light of the television, the blue, the book, the patterns the light, the blue.
01 January 2011
A film by Barbara Meter
01 January 2009
A day in the life of an old Ottoman bath with the bath itself as the main character -- from dawn till dusk, where the light, the mirroring in the water and the visitors figure alongside the protagonist .
01 May 1967
A Young man is interested in the girl next door, but also discovers that he is not insensitive to a boy, with whom he has dress-up parties in the attic and plays in an old bunker in the dunes.
27 August 2003
Observations shot from a docking ship.
03 August 1966
The dutchified Hungarian Joszef Katús returns, after a months-long absence, to Amsterdam on 29 April 1966.
25 August 1970
A man and a woman converse wordlessly. An essential film dialogue. The accompanying sound was created by playing a chord from a Mahler symphony through two 'reel-to-reel' tape recorders and editing it.
27 August 2008
A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind.
27 August 2005
The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack.
25 August 1994
A meditation on the concept of waiting and the internal emotional life of women relegated to that role.
01 January 2002
People embarking on a small boat - the bustle and confusion of it. A walk and a song. A villiage square, men with coffee, women with children, and old man by himself.
27 August 2000
An image of early twentieth century Germany rises from a collage of family photographs and landscapes.
01 January 1965
A young woman from Amsterdam decides to sell her one year old jeep on the street one day. A passer by on a bike helps her repair and charms her during this process.
01 January 2015
In her recent film Up to the Sky and Much Much More, Meter uses letters sent to her by her father during World War II to provide the film's narration, while interviews with her mother expand on his opposition to fascism — as well as to constraints of any kind, including the bonds of family — and his eventual conscription to the Eastern front.
27 August 2005
A rhythmical montage made from old photographs and films in which past and present merge.
25 August 1995
A short film with shots of sculptures by Anneke Walvoort. The materiality of film plays an important role: visible grain, flashes of colour, unexpected camera movements.
26 October 1996
An attempt to communicate the feeling of evaporation, of disappearing and slipping away of the fragile material which is called time.
01 January 1969
A film by Barbara Meter
01 January 1969
Photos and film footage are edited, damaged, scratched, and painted. The original images are only vaguely recognizable, as if they are already part of our ‘tainted’ memory.
