Frans Zwartjes Movies

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.

A selection of never-before-seen cinema sketches by Zwartjes, compiled by Stanley Schtinter with music from Zwartjes' record Tapes I.

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...

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

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

A strangely-dressed man reaches for some sorbet and then eats it; A playful, expertly-edited excercise from Zwartjes.

Short film by Frans Zwartjes

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.

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...

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.