Bert Haanstra Movies

Bert Haanstra's first film.

The Netherlands and water, they are inseparable from one another. Water in its soothing form, as a place of work and pleasure and as a source of...

Documentary about Queen Juliana of The Netherlands in honor of her 70st birthday, including a short interview with the queen.

This short documentary, shot in the glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam, demonstrates how glass blowers do their work. But thanks to the superbly...

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

Impressive, abstract dance film from Bert Haanstra.

In Burgers Zoo the new residence of the gorillas is put in operation. Also the country of origin, Cameroon, is visited.

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 oil exploration, the phase before drilling.

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,...

The film is a study of the differences and similarities between human and animal behaviour. The first part of the movie focuses on the behaviour of...

How the location and size of an oil field is measured. With animated explanations.

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

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

Short poetic documentary about the southern sea in the Netherlands.

Bert Haanstra was commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a short film about his own country. It had to be a piece of the work that...

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