Songs for Four Hands

Songs for Four Hands

A man and a woman converse wordlessly. An essential film dialogue. The accompanying sound was created by playing a chord from a Mahler symphony...

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Sculptures for a Windless Space

Sculptures for a Windless Space

A short film with shots of sculptures by Anneke Walvoort. The materiality of film plays an important role: visible grain, flashes of colour...

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Quay

Quay

Part of the Zuiver Film collection.

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Appearances

Appearances

An image of early twentieth century Germany rises from a collage of family photographs and landscapes. Meter used the photo albums of her parents...

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Portraits

Portraits

Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain...

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Up to the Sky and Much Much More

Up to the Sky and Much Much More

In her recent film Up to the Sky and Much Much More, Meter uses letters sent to her by her father during World War II to provide the film's...

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Ariadne

Ariadne

The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The...

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Schermerhoorn

Schermerhoorn

A Young man is interested in the girl next door, but also discovers that he is not insensitive to a boy, with whom he has dress-up parties in the...

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Convalescing

Convalescing

“Convalescing, when you don't have to participate in the world. Time to read, to dream, to look - the blue, the light of the television, the blue...

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Offices

Offices

Short film by Barbara Meter.

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Penelope

Penelope

Part of the Zuiver Film collection.

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From the Exterior

From the Exterior

Barbara Meter's first experimental film. From outside, the handheld camera surreptitiously peers at life in the living rooms of nocturnal...

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Stretto

Stretto

A rhythmical montage made from old photographs and films in which past and present merge.

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A Touch

A Touch

A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind. Fog and mist, shadows of people...

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Nachtlicht

Nachtlicht

Little Stabs

Little Stabs

A film by Barbara Meter

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Loutron

Loutron

A day in the life of an old Ottoman bath with the bath itself as the main character -- from dawn till dusk, where the light, the mirroring in the...

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Whether or not you believe

Whether or not you believe

They can be seen in the whole of Greece: the small and humble buildings along the roadside dedicated to a saint. Often a burning candle illuminates...

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Aap, Noot, Mies

Aap, Noot, Mies

...And a Table

...And a Table

A man and a woman sit in front of a window and eat breakfast. Through the window, we see the countryside. During the day, they remain seated at the...

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