Jaap Pieters Filmes

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

While filming a portrait of Dutch filmmaker Jaap Pieters, he evoked memories of a Lebanese friend who had disappeared, and his desire to trace his...

Kim, a dancer, gets a foot massage from Steven, a drummer.

A partly mirrored single shot of an early morning Toronto street scene on a single reel Tri-X Super 8mm. The film shows us a complex still life,...

A homeless man tries to keep his daily movements in line and order... The intimacy of a private life on the street, filmed from the inside of a third...

High stacks of cups wobble unsteadily on a running washing machine.

A man is trying to put empty cans into his torn coat pockets. There appear to be more and more cans lying on the street.

Kindergarteners make numerous attempts to lift a pumpkin.

A portrait of Jaap's good friend Willem.

A visual chain of 'encounters' in which the camera is moved by the movement of the people. A chain-reaction as a domino-row where our eye is forced...

A man stands in the middle of the market, playing a stringless ukulele.

This silent film provokes the anger of the man in our heads, the anger we can see but can't hear & at the same time the man tries to acquire...

A furious man with a bottle and can...

A man stands on a sidewalk, holding a model airplane aloft...

The bottom of the river is dug up then dumped again.

A tree stands at the foot a towering wooden structure in Istanbul.

At Michel's home in Zurich, the shade of flowers dance upon a window curtain.

From his bedroom window on the second floor, Pieters films the unloading of meat.