Frans Zwartjes Movies

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

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...

Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees.

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

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

An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

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...

Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between...

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...

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

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

Short film by 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 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...

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

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

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

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...

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

First film by Paul de Nooijer, in collaboration with his artistic father Frans Zwartjes. Moving Stills shows a series of photographs by...