Frans Zwartjes Movies

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

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

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...

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

Short film by 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...

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

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...

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

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.

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...