Bert Haanstra Movies

The glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam commissioned Bert Haanstra to make film about glass manufacturing. The entire process can be seen: the...

Documentary on the genesis of oil in the Earth's crust.

Impressive, abstract dance film from Bert Haanstra.

Myrte and the Demons is a hallucinatory trip through a world shot in chiaroscuro in which lugubrious forest spirits take human forms at night. Myrte,...

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and...

In this film Bert Haanstra shows how important the formation of national parks is for the protection of nature.

Documentary about Ajax Amsterdam in 1968.

In 1952, Haanstra made Panta Rhei , another view of Holland through the eyes of a painter and filmmaker. Its poetic images of water, skies and clouds...

Highlights of the Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps on June 5th, 1955.

In Rembrandt, Haanstra shows that it is possible to make a fascinating film only with images from paintings. He had to travel though all over Europe...

Documentary on the first stage in oil exploration: the first drill.

Short film in which Dutch author Simon Carmiggelt visits the hairdresser.

A 12 minute film about the Evoluon [a conference centre and former science museum erected by the electronics and electrical company Philips at...

A small town doctor gets a visit from a former study-friend. He doesn't know this former surgeon has become a junkie that wants to steal his morphine.

Documentary on oil exploration, the phase before drilling.

Eight newspaper-columns by Dutch writer Simon Carmiggelt were turned into a film in honor of his 70st birthday.

Kamiel steals the famous Brussels statue of Manneken Pis to impress his girlfriend Denise, the daughter of the man who is supposed to guard it. The...

Bert Haanstra's first film.