Visual Training

Visual Training

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

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Living

Living

Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.

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Through the Garden and Into the Living

Through the Garden and Into the Living

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...

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Bedsitters

Bedsitters

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...

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The Great Magician

The Great Magician

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

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Behind Your Walls

Behind Your Walls

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

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Birds, One

Birds, One

A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.

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Anamnesis

Anamnesis

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...

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film fragments

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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Pentimento

Pentimento

In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another...

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They Are Five

They Are Five

In this experimental film we see people in varying combinations walking and crawling through sand and grass and along the waterfront in a very...

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To Tea

To Tea

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...

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Compilatie

Compilatie

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

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Toilet

Toilet

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

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In Extremo

In Extremo

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...

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Seats Two

Seats Two

Two girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. Sexuality is suggested through the weird rhythm...

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Film II

Film II

To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost. Zwartjes started his...

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Eating

Eating

Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.

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