Biography
Movie Credits
Visual Training
1969-12-31
A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.
Anamnesis
1969-01-01
Film in three parts. A man and a woman, Trix Zwartjes and Lodewijk de Boer (Zwartjes’s regular actor
Bedsitters
1974-01-01
Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmma
Birds, One
1968-01-01
A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.
To Tea
1970-01-01
To Tea, made in Holland (at the house of the Dutch avant-garde filmmaker Franz Zwartjes), is a slowe
They Are Five
1970-01-02
In this experimental film we see people in varying combinations walking and crawling through sand an
Toilet
1970-01-02
Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.
Through the Garden and Into the Living
1970-01-02
Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the gras
film fragments
2015-11-11
A selection of never-before-seen cinema sketches by Zwartjes, compiled by Stanley Schtinter with mus
Pentimento
1979-02-01
In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexualit
The Great Magician
2006-09-14
"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most importan
Living
1971-01-01
Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them
Behind Your Walls
1970-01-01
Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration assoc
In Extremo
1981-09-11
The central element in this film is formed by the preparation for and execution of a performance. Th
Seats Two
1970-09-16
Two girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. S
Film II
1967-01-01
To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super
Eating
1969-01-01
Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.
Compilatie
1969-01-01
An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.