Frans Zwartjes Filmes

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

Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees.

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

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

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

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...

An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

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

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

To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost. Zwartjes started...

Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.

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...

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

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

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

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...

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

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

A man in drag sits on a couch holding a fan. The wallpaper behind him is floral patterned. Although the man does little more than looking around and...

An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.