Barbara Meter Movies

A rhythmical montage made from old photographs and films in which past and present merge.

A short film with shots of sculptures by Anneke Walvoort. The materiality of film plays an important role: visible grain, flashes of colour,...

The film has elements of documentary, narrative and avant-garde. In a big house a party is taking place. People arrive and greet each...

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...

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

An attempt to communicate the feeling of evaporation, of disappearing and slipping away of the fragile material which is called time.

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

Short film by Barbara Meter.

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...

Barbara Meter's first experimental film. From outside, the handheld camera surreptitiously peers at life in the living rooms of nocturnal Amsterdam....

“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...