Frans Zwartjes Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

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

Short film by Frans Zwartjes

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...

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

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.