Frans Zwartjes Movies

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...

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.

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 short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

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

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...