Maartje Seyferth
Maartje SEYFERTH (1945, The Netherlands) was trained at the theater schools in Antwerp and Amsterdam. She has worked as a freelance actress and is educated in painting at the Rietveld Academy and directing at the University of the Arts, both in Amsterdam. Since 1984 she has been active as a filmmaker, together with Victor Nieuwenhuijs. In 1986, they founded the production company Moskito Film. The films that Seyferth and Nieuwenhuijs made together are part of the collection of the Amsterdam Film Museum.
Filmography
(selection, all co-dir) Een dag als 1000 jaren/A Day Lasting a Thousand Years (1989, short), Armando (1990, short), Venus in Furs (1995), Lulu (2005), Crepuscule (2009), Vlees/Meat (2010)
Maartje Seyferth at IFFR
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Venus in furs
Masochistic sexual fantasies of a young man, filmed in extreme black & white close-ups framed by classicist architecture.
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Crepuscule
A dark city in worrying black-and-white. An unreliable middle-aged man. And above all a subtle blonde girl who looks shy yet knows no shame. Join h
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Een dag als 1000 jaren
A fictional story about a 15 metre high sculpture by Geurt van Dijk, told with associative images that originate in apocalyptic notions on the them
