Frans Zwartjes Movies

A selection of never-before-seen cinema sketches by Zwartjes, compiled by Stanley Schtinter with music from Zwartjes' record Tapes I.

An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

Zwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with...

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

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

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

First full-length experimental feature by filmmaker Zwartjes about an actress, played by Willeke van Ammelrooy, who during the whole film, in...

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...

Short film by Frans Zwartjes

Observations of a woman with a Japanese mask dressed in a large painted robe. She moves along the ground amid a (photographed or painted) backdrop of...

An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.