Movies

Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the grass and people at the table. A film from the series...

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

Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.

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...

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

Short film by Frans Zwartjes

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

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

An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.

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

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

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...