Frans Zwartjes Movies

Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees.

Frans Zwartjes' adaptation of Euripides' tragedy, originally produced for stage by the actresses Josée Ruiter and Çanci Geraerdts.

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

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

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

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

Compilation film consisting of material from various artists who are involved in body art

Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between...

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...

An experimental film by 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...

An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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