Frans Zwartjes Movies

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...

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

Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees.

Frans Zwartjes' adaptation of Euripides' tragedy, originally produced for stage by the actresses Josée Ruiter and Çanci Geraerdts.

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...

Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.

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

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...

To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost. Zwartjes started...

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.