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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Henri Plaat

Henri PLAAT (1936, Netherlands) lives in Amsterdam. He studied at the Rietveld Academy in the mid-1950s before going on to work as a topographic designer. In the early 1960s, Plaat decided to concentrate on painting and watercolour. In 1966 he started to make short fiction films and travelogues, usually with a small 16-millimeter hand-held camera.

Filmography

(all short) Hitler Stay Away from my Door (1968), I Am an Old Smoking, Moving Indian Movie Star (1969), Dr. Imbédébilius (1970), El Cardenal/The Cardinal (1972), Real Fine Tea from Berlin (1972), It is not Surprising (1972), Laughter in the Rosary (1973), The Strange but Unknown Movie Star (1974), Postcards (1974), Sepp Södel Next Week (1975), Prestcold (1976), Sferen (1976), Lost Rooms (1977), Now That You are Gone (1977), Der Graf Von Rü (1978), Grave 17B (1979), Spurs of Tango (1980), Ladakh (1981), El nino perverso (1981), Other Thoughts 1 (1981), Fragments of Decay (1983), La Muerto en Vivo (1986), 2nd War Hats (1986), Return to Prestcold (1988), De ingekleurde droom (1989), Este Coche (1989), Other Thoughts 2 (1990), Madamme Ivonne (1990), Up Hill and Down Dale (1990), Fashion from New York (1990), On the Road a Smiling Stone (1992), Other Thoughts 3 (1992), Cuba (1993), Moroccan Lights (1995), Luz y sombra (1998), A Fleeting Dream (2004), Other Thougts 4 (2008)

Henri Plaat at IFFR

  • Other Thoughts 4

    After more than 10 years, the series Other Thoughts fortunately has another sequel, with part four.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Este coche

  • Other Thoughts 2

  • The Strange But Unknown Star

    A ten-year-old girl dressed as a 1920s star gives a performance while Marlene Dietrich is bombarded with egg, chocolate powder and currants. (Eye)

    • Bright Future Short

  • 2nd War-Hats

    Between the wartime bombing, the latest fashion in ladies’ hats is showed off from a manhole cover in an asphalt road in Warsaw, and the maker himself can be recognised in one of the made up women’s heads.

    • Cinema Regained

  • Fragments of Decay

    Derelict houses and old people: they express a desire for the good old days.

    • Cinema Regained

  • Luz y sombra

    Light and shadow in colour and black & white, in graveyards and colourful markets in Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay.

    • dutch perspective

  • Moroccan Lights

    Idiosyncratic travelogue by Henri Plaat through the mountains and deserts of Southern Morocco.

    • main programme short

  • Other Thoughts 3

    Series of portraits of people linked by tranquil pictures of a surreal world.

    • dutch perspective

  • On the road a smiling stone

    On the Road a Smiling Stone is a documentary report from an area where the smell of cultural history has barely faded, designed in the idiosyncratic way adopted by Henri Plaat; an approach which is especially visual.Plaat: ‘The thread linking my work is travelling, and the films which the journeys have furnished have a melancholy […]