To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost. Zwartjes started his career as a violinist and visual artist. He took photographs, made music and built instruments – but only really broke through with his equally craftsmanlike films.
Also in this combined programme
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Visual Training
Oppressive black-and-white study of a man in pale makeup surrendering as apathetically as a zombie from a German Expressionist film to primitive, chil -
Behind Your Walls
In true Zwartjes style, the filmmaker creates an intoxicating, surreal microcosm – this time through a bizarre pantomime featuring extras in hea -
Moving Stills
Working with one of his most talented students, Zwartjes animated a series of photos to create an obsessive study of a favourite motif: the female… -
Tribute to Art #2
Rather than a documentary about Zwartjes, Scheffer made a film with him – a feverish dream of his major motifs. And a final moment of…
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 1967
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 18'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
