Trix Zwartjes Movies

  • 1969
    Visual Training

    Visual Training

    Visual Training

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

    Visual Training
  • 2006
    The Great Magician

    The Great Magician

    The Great Magician

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

    The Great Magician
  • 1974
    Bedsitters

    Bedsitters

    Bedsitters

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    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...

    Bedsitters
  • 1979
    Pentimento

    Pentimento

    Pentimento

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

    Pentimento
  • 1976
    It's Me

    It's Me

    It's Me

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

    It's Me
  • 1970
    Behind Your Walls

    Behind Your Walls

    Behind Your Walls

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    Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like...

    Behind Your Walls
  • 1970
    Through the Garden and Into the Living

    Through the Garden and Into the Living

    Through the Garden and Into the Living

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    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...

    Through the Garden and Into the Living
  • 1968
    Birds, One

    Birds, One

    Birds, One

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

    Birds, One
  • 1971
    Living

    Living

    Living

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

    Living
  • 1969
    Compilatie

    Compilatie

    Compilatie

    01969HD

    An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

    Compilatie
  • 2015
    film fragments

    film fragments

    film fragments

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

    film fragments
  • 1969
    Anamnesis

    Anamnesis

    Anamnesis

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    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...

    Anamnesis
  • 1970
    They Are Five

    They Are Five

    They Are Five

    01970HD

    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...

    They Are Five
  • 1967
    Film II

    Film II

    Film II

    01967HD

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

    Film II
  • 1970
    Seats Two

    Seats Two

    Seats Two

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    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...

    Seats Two
  • 1970
    To Tea

    To Tea

    To Tea

    01970HD

    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...

    To Tea
  • 1970
    Toilet

    Toilet

    Toilet

    01970HD

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

    Toilet
  • 1981
    In Extremo

    In Extremo

    In Extremo

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    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...

    In Extremo
  • 1969
    Eating

    Eating

    Eating

    01969HD

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

    Eating