Barbara Meter Movies

A Young man is interested in the girl next door, but also discovers that he is not insensitive to a boy, with whom he has dress-up parties in the...

Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain,...

The dutchified Hungarian Joszef Katús returns, after a months-long absence, to Amsterdam on 29 April 1966. The arrival of the Provos changed a...

In her recent film Up to the Sky and Much Much More, Meter uses letters sent to her by her father during World War II to provide the film's...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

A man and a woman converse wordlessly. An essential film dialogue. The accompanying sound was created by playing a chord from a Mahler symphony...

Part of the Zuiver Film collection.

Short film by Barbara Meter.

“Convalescing, when you don't have to participate in the world. Time to read, to dream, to look - the blue, the light of the television, the...

The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The unknown...

a man with a moped and groups of boys (one in particular) are in conflict, which sometimes turns into erotic play.

People embarking on a small boat - the bustle and confusion of it. A walk and a song. A villiage square, men with coffee, women with children, and...

A very impressive film is Barbara Meter's 'Distance to Nearby.' The film is a dramatic reconstruction of memory. The memory of the alienation and...

Part of the Zuiver Film collection.

Often the images are held for awhile and then left to themselves - only to fade out just as they begin to move. For me this enhances the feeling of...

A day in the life of an old Ottoman bath with the bath itself as the main character -- from dawn till dusk, where the light, the mirroring in the...

An image of early twentieth century Germany rises from a collage of family photographs and landscapes. Meter used the photo albums of her parents,...

A film by Barbara Meter