Movies
- 1969
Visual Training
Visual Training5.4141969HD
A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.
- 1976
It's Me
It's Me51976HD
First full-length experimental feature by filmmaker Zwartjes about an actress, played by Willeke van Ammelrooy, who during the whole film, in...
- 1968
Birds, One
Birds, One5.31968HD
A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.
- 1970
Through the Garden and Into the Living
Through the Garden and Into the Living01970HD
Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the grass and people at the table. A film from the series...
- 1979
Pentimento
Pentimento5.81979HD
In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another....
- 2006
The Great Magician
The Great Magician52006HD
"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the...
- 1971
Living
Living6.71971HD
Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.
- 1969
Anamnesis
Anamnesis6.21969HD
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...
- 1970
Behind Your Walls
Behind Your Walls5.21970HD
Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like...
- 1974
Bedsitters
Bedsitters6.61974HD
Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space...
- 1970
To Tea
To Tea01970HD
To Tea, made in Holland (at the house of the Dutch avant-garde filmmaker Franz Zwartjes), is a slowed ‘Alice in Roomland’.A guide to...
- 1970
Toilet
Toilet01970HD
Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.
- 2015
film fragments
film fragments02015HD
A selection of never-before-seen cinema sketches by Zwartjes, compiled by Stanley Schtinter with music from Zwartjes' record Tapes I.
- 1970
Seats Two
Seats Two4.51970HD
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...
- 1969
Compilatie
Compilatie01969HD
An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.
- 1970
They Are Five
They Are Five01970HD
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...
- 1967
Film II
Film II01967HD
To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost. Zwartjes started...
- 1969
Eating
Eating01969HD
Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.
- 1981
In Extremo
In Extremo01981HD
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...