Rosemarie Blank

Lost in Time (2024)

Punt Uit - Schluss Aus - Full Stop (2020)

A sensitive, intimate and intriguing glimpse into the final days of the director's life companion. Rosemarie Blank follows her life companion very closely as, together, they make a film of his last days. In cinematographically fascinating scenes she manage ...

Berliner Tagebuch (2012)

'Where I am, I don't want to stay. I want to stay where I've never been.' Filmmaker Rosemarie Blank was born in Berlin, but has lived in various other places in the world. After returning to her native city, she wondered what it's like for other people to ...

Farewell Pavel (1999)

Farewell Pavel takes place in two cities. In Rotterdam, we follow Russian reporter Alexei Petrov. He stays in a shabby hotel while investigating Russian ships that have been chained up and writes an article about trafficking in women. His contact with a Ru ...

Crossing Borders (1994)

A restless German woman lives with her dog in an old trailer close to the city of Amsterdam. Her life is an unstructured, nomadic existence. Wherever she is, there is always something missing and she always thinks that she could find it somewhere else. ...

Transit Levantkade (1991)

Stylised documentary portrait of the Amsterdam Levantkade area and the 'urban nomads' who in the late eighties sought refuge in this no-man's-land now cleared. The film tells the story of the Levantkade, a quay in Amsterdam's old doc area. In the twenties ...

The Ants (1987)

​A young woman seeks solitude and peace by retreating to an old, isolated peasant house in Italy. Instead of finding tranquility, she becomes increasingly overwhelmed by her strange surroundings, the silence of inanimate objects, and the constant presenc ...

Divided Earth (1985)

La terra in due means the earth of the landlords versus that of the peasants who actually cultivate it. This film uses evocative photogrphy and a dignified rhythm to depict the death of peasant culture. This fact is brought home by the super 8 footage shot ...

De laatste dagen van het atelier Frans van de Staak (2002)

The importance of the Atelier as a meeting and working-place for independent or beginning filmmakers is highlighted in Last days of Studio Frans van de Staak a necrology of his films by Kees Hin (2002), which focuses mainly on Van de Staak's non-naturalist ...