Frans Zwartjes Trailers
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Frans Zwartjes (*Alkmaar, 1927) is a film maker, musician, violin maker, artist and sculptor. In the late 1960's he became well known with films showing grotesquely dressed up actors involved in little power-mad sexual games. Hysterics and cruelty are his regular topics. Susan Sontag called Zwartjes "the most important contemporary experimental film maker". Zwartjes made over fifty films. Pentimento (1979), Living (1971) and Ín Extremo (1981) seem to be his best known films. Director Ruud Monster's documentary The Great Wizard portrays Zwartjes as a self-conscious artist who comments on the world in a farcical way. The film was partly shot at Zwartjes's home, while he was composing.
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31 December 1969
A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.
14 September 2006
"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the American essayist Susan Sontag.
04 September 1973
Zwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with his brother Rudolf and Lodewijk de Boer.
01 January 1968
An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.
01 January 1968
A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.
01 January 1971
Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.
16 September 1970
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 the film's editing and the tactile quality of the images.
01 January 1970
Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work.
05 January 1968
A strangely-dressed man reaches for some sorbet and then eats it; A playful, expertly-edited excercise from Zwartjes.
01 January 1974
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 by using a ‘floating’ camera to film a number of crawling, creeping personages.
25 November 1976
First full-length experimental feature by filmmaker Zwartjes about an actress, played by Willeke van Ammelrooy, who during the whole film, in continuously changes moods, is busy in her room.
01 January 1970
Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between husband and wife.
01 January 1984
A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.
01 January 1967
To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost.
02 January 1970
Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the grass and people at the table.
01 January 1969
Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.
01 January 1968
Short film by Frans Zwartjes
01 January 1969
An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.
02 January 1970
Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.
01 January 1992
Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees.
11 November 2015
A selection of never-before-seen cinema sketches by Zwartjes, compiled by Stanley Schtinter with music from Zwartjes' record Tapes I.
01 January 1969
An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.
01 January 1968
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 waving his fan, Zwartjes created enormous tension.
02 January 1970
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 assembly.
01 January 1972
First film by Paul de Nooijer, in collaboration with his artistic father Frans Zwartjes. Moving Stills shows a series of photographs by Françoise de Nooijer, which are joined, by means of editing and colour effects, and turned into a moving picture.
02 January 1970
Observations of a woman with a Japanese mask dressed in a large painted robe. She moves along the ground amid a (photographed or painted) backdrop of trees and a Japanese window.
01 January 1969
An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.
11 September 1981
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 by an artist (Perrenet) and his girlfriend during the opening of an exhibition.
01 February 1979
In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another.
08 February 1982
Frans Zwartjes' adaptation of Euripides' tragedy, originally produced for stage by the actresses Josée Ruiter and Çanci Geraerdts.
30 November 1975
Compilation film consisting of material from various artists who are involved in body art
01 January 1969
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 outside at the water side.
