Frans Zwartjes Movies

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

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

Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.

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

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...

Compilation film consisting of material from various artists who are involved in body art

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...

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...

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

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

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