Frans Zwartjes Movies

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

A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.

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...

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...

Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.

"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the...

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

A man in drag sits on a couch holding a fan. The wallpaper behind him is floral patterned. Although the man does little more than looking around and...

A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

Two girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. Sexuality is suggested through the weird rhythm of...

In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another....

Short film by Frans Zwartjes

Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between...

Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the grass and people at the table. A film from the series...

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

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

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...