Frans Zwartjes Movies

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...

An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.

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...

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...

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

Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees.

An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

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

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

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

Two girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. Sexuality is suggested through the weird rhythm of...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.

Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space...