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A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.
Visual Training
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...
Anamnesis
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...
Bedsitters
A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.
Birds, One
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...
To Tea
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...
They Are Five
Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.
Toilet
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...
Through the Garden and Into the Living
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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In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another....
Pentimento
"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the...
The Great Magician
Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.
Living
Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like...
Behind Your Walls
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...
In Extremo
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...
Seats Two
To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost. Zwartjes started...
Film II
Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.
Eating
An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.
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