Gerrit van Dijk Movies

Surrealist animation about two cubes who come alive against a constantly changing background. The cubes go through the process of growing up and...

An associative linking of erotic and pornographically suggestive transformations, whereby the unity is preserved by placing the action in a frame.

Short film by Gerrit van Dijk 1998

Emma Westermann's documentary shows the final six months in the life of Dutch animation grandmaster Gerrit van Dijk. Every night, he makes one...

The clip shows a film fragment in which the French film comedian Fernandel shuffles along the street sadly and apparently aimlessly. Colours are...

The last words of the gangster Dutch Schultz form the starting point for this animated documentary. The FBI noted these words down on Schultz’...

Short film by Gerrit van Dijk 1968

The miracle of life takes place to the tune of the drinking song from Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. The game of love between man and...

Film material from the forties found in a jumble sale adapted into a contemporary clip. An unknown female singer performs before the camera while...

Short animation by Gerrit van Dijk

Colourful lines and geometric figures move and change to the notes of a disjointed Wilhelmus [Dutch national anthem]. As the film progresses the...

Short film by Gerrit van Dijk 1969

In a series of transformations, a boy with a football under his arm is transformed into increasingly aggressive-looking sportsmen.

The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, presented as a game. In front of the nervous citizens the leaders of the world powers...

A short animation in which characters from 39 paintings in the Frans Hals Museum move from one artwork to the next.

Documentary about animator and artist Gerit van Dijk. The film follows van Dijk as he works on his film ‘I Move, So I Am’.

In the beginning there was a hand, and this hand drew other hands, then shoulders, heads, legs and finally, the animator himself. Inspired by a wide...

A man is pursued by aggressive advertising images. he finds himself in a labyrinth of advertisements from where he escapes and subsequently ends up...

First film in the Blind Justice documentary animation series about women and the law. The film traces the Aristotelian concept of all men being...

The American president Jimmy Carter and the Chinese statesman Teng-Hsiao Ping sing together Alle Menschen werden Brüder. In the background is a...