film fragments (2015)
A selection of never-before-seen cinema sketches by Zwartjes, compiled by Stanley Schtinter with music from Zwartjes' record Tapes I. ...
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Trix Zwartjes is associated with: film fragments
A selection of never-before-seen cinema sketches by Zwartjes, compiled by Stanley Schtinter with music from Zwartjes' record Tapes I. ...
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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 American essayist Susan Sontag. ...
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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 by an artist (Perrenet) and his girlfriend during the opening of an exhibition. As spectators to the perform ...
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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" is an art-historical term for a hidden image underneath the actual image giving an indication ...
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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 by using a 'floating' camera to film a number of crawling, creeping personages. ...
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Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it. ...
Watch NowTwo girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. Sexuality is suggested through the weird rhythm of the film's editing and the tactile quality of the images. ...
Watch NowIn this experimental film we see people in varying combinations walking and crawling through sand and grass and along the waterfront in a very quick assembly. ...
Watch NowShort, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots. ...
Watch NowFilm 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 Home Sweet Home. ...
Watch NowFrans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like crisp paper about to be despoiled, a torpid heat reduces movement to fidgets and hesitations. ...
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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 sensual contact between two women. Their contact is arrived at through an arrangement of slow tactics. As the light of day ...
Watch NowA man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs. ...
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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 outside at the water side. They attract and reject each other. ...
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To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes' very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost. Zwartjes started his career as a violinist and visual artist. He took photographs, made music and built instruments – but only r ...
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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 continuously changing moods, is busy in her room. Eventually, she is made an offer by telephone. But what offer do ...
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