There Is No Plane to Zagreb (2012)
A retrospective of events in director Louis van Gasteren's life from 1964 to 1969, filmed by him in that period and reflected on from his vantage point over 40 years later at the age of 90. ...
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Louis van Gasteren is associated with: There Is No Plane to Zagreb
A retrospective of events in director Louis van Gasteren's life from 1964 to 1969, filmed by him in that period and reflected on from his vantage point over 40 years later at the age of 90. ...
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Fifty years after making A New Village on New Land (1960), Van Gasteren and co-director Joke Meerman return to Nagele. What has Nagele become? He interviews residents and local officials and sees that over the course of fifty years, this model village has ...
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A personal portrait of farmer and politician Sicco Mansholt (1908-1995) by his good friend Louis van Gasteren and his wife Joke Meerman. Unique archival material and interviews with family, colleagues and former politicians including Max Kohnstamm, Jan Pro ...
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More than thirty years ago, Louis van Gasteren made the documentary BEGRIJPT U NU WAAROM IK HUIL? about a therapeutic LSD session that professor Jan Bastiaans did with a traumatised ex-prisoner of German concentration camps. The patient died in late 2000 a ...
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Through archival footage, interviews and computer animation, Louis van Gasteren explores a thousand years of Dutch water management. Guided by a fictional computer program called SPADE, the film traces how draining and reclaiming the land upset the balance ...
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All Rebels paints a picture of the young people who congregated around Amsterdam's Leidseplein square in the days before wider protest movements broke out in the late '60s and the '70s. They kicked against the powers that be through wild parties, jazz musi ...
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Filmmaker Louis van Gasteren reconstructs the life of Amsterdam poet, composer and actor Hans van Sweeden, who took his own life at the age of twenty-four in 1963. Through interviews with friends, relatives and contemporaries, alongside archival material, ...
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Footage of a sunny village square in Sardinia leads to humorous, philosophical reflections on reality and the role of the 'objectively recording' documentary maker. Van Gasteren sees the square as a backdrop in his film, and the chance passers-by as extras ...
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Do You Get It No. 3 deals with the behaviour of people who notice they are being filmed, without the viewer being directly aware of this. Van Gasteren films a traffic officer and the chaotic traffic at a busy intersection in Salerno, Italy. A passer-by see ...
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This movie, made in 1969, documents the shattering story of a concentration camp survivor and his severe traumatisation, treated by Jan Bastiaans M.D. and his method of LSD psychotherapy. ...
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The work of Leiden professor Bastiaans on dealing with the trauma of war victims attracts the attention of filmmaker Louis van Gasteren. He decides to make a film about the psychotherapeutic treatment with LSD of a former concentration camp prisoner in the ...
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On 19 March 1966, a photo exhibition about the police intervention during the wedding of Beatrix and Claus opened in Amsterdam. After the opening, filmmaker Louis van Gasteren filmed how, in the distance, policemen began beating up a young man, seemingly w ...
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Short documentary where a student of medicine describes an experiment for which he drilled a small hole in his forehead in order to achieve a higher state of being ...
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Short film documenting a performance by poet Ted Jones in combination with music by the Peter Kuiters Modern Jazz Group. ...
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On 22 May 1962, Warffum in the Dutch province of Groningen became the last place in the Netherlands to be connected to the fully automated telephone network. Combining documentary footage with staged scenes, the film follows people in different parts of th ...
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In a fragmented, non-chronological series of images, a grand villa in Bloemendaal becomes the silent witness to the lives of two generations between 1900 and its demolition in 1950. Without dialogue, the film moves through moments of birth, love, adultery, ...
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This short essayistic documentary by Louis van Gasteren is an argument for the industrialised building of homes, in the typically optimistic tone of the post-war reconstruction period. In this film, Van Gasteren makes use of elements of Soviet cinema and t ...
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The municipality of Nagele came about entirely on the drawing board and is an international symbol for the makeability of the Netherlands. Van Gasteren became fascinated by the Nagele project, and followed it from the drawing board and models to the constr ...
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In Rotterdam, Baas (Lex Goudsmit) sells a batch of fake diamonds to a gang of international con-men. They pay in dollars: a suitcase full of banknotes is sent on a ship from Rotterdam to Hamburg. The wife of one of the gang members (played by Josephine van ...
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Short documentary about the construction of tramlines in the centre of Amsterdam ...
Watch NowA retrospective of events in director Louis van Gasteren's life from 1964 to 1969, filmed by him in that period and reflected on from his vantage point over 40 years later at the age of 90. ...
Watch NowFootage of a sunny village square in Sardinia leads to humorous, philosophical reflections on reality and the role of the 'objectively recording' documentary maker. Van Gasteren sees the square as a backdrop in his film, and the chance passers-by as extras ...
Watch NowDo You Get It No. 3 deals with the behaviour of people who notice they are being filmed, without the viewer being directly aware of this. Van Gasteren films a traffic officer and the chaotic traffic at a busy intersection in Salerno, Italy. A passer-by see ...
Watch NowIn a fragmented, non-chronological series of images, a grand villa in Bloemendaal becomes the silent witness to the lives of two generations between 1900 and its demolition in 1950. Without dialogue, the film moves through moments of birth, love, adultery, ...
Watch NowIn Rotterdam, Baas (Lex Goudsmit) sells a batch of fake diamonds to a gang of international con-men. They pay in dollars: a suitcase full of banknotes is sent on a ship from Rotterdam to Hamburg. The wife of one of the gang members (played by Josephine van ...
Watch NowAmsterdam is besieged by an alliance of Kennemers and Waterlanders, prepared to exact heavy vengeance on lord Gysbreght van Aemstel, the last remaining murderer of count Floris V. Filmed performance of Joost van den Vondel's classic play. ...
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