As he does more often, Zwartjes creates an intoxicating, surreal microcosm – this time through a bizarre pantomime featuring extras in heavy make-up. A great example of how the experimental filmmaker was able to unorthodoxly forge colour and black-and-white, silence and an eclectic audio mix into a lyrical poem.
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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 nud
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Film II
To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost.
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Regained
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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
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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 eye contac
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Regained
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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
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Regained
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Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 1970
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 12"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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