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Frans Zwartjes: Fade to Black

Combined programme | IFFR 2018

A succinct selection from the rich oeuvre of the Dutch experimental film pioneer who passed away recently, including his first and last works.

In this combined programme

  • Film II

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

  • Birds

    Hypnotic, repetitive film featuring Trix, Zwartjes’ regular partner in crime – and in life. The second ‘turtle dove’ is a piece of a toy between

  • 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…