Visual Training
A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.
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Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.
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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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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" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the...
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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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A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.
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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...
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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...
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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, 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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An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.
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Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.
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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...
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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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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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Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.
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