Trix Zwartjes Movies

A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.

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Cast: Christian Manders

Film in three parts. A man and a woman, Trix Zwartjes and Lodewijk de Boer (Zwartjes’s regular actors) circle around each other in a house and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Trix Zwartjes

Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space...

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Cast: Armand Perrenet

A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.

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Cast: Trix Zwartjes

To Tea, made in Holland (at the house of the Dutch avant-garde filmmaker Franz Zwartjes), is a slowed ‘Alice in Roomland’.A guide to...

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Cast: Tineke

In this experimental film we see people in varying combinations walking and crawling through sand and grass and along the waterfront in a very quick...

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Cast: Lodewijk De Boer

Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.

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Cast: Trix Zwartjes

Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the grass and people at the table. A film from the series...

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Cast: Lodewijk De Boer

A selection of never-before-seen cinema sketches by Zwartjes, compiled by Stanley Schtinter with music from Zwartjes' record Tapes I.

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Cast: Trix Zwartjes

In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Hedy

"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frans Zwartjes

Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frans Zwartjes

Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lodewijk De Boer

The central element in this film is formed by the preparation for and execution of a performance. The performance, a parachute jump, is carried out...

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Cast: Ronald Beer

Two girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. Sexuality is suggested through the weird rhythm of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Trix Zwartjes

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

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Cast: Trix Zwartjes

Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.

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Cast: Moniek Toebosch

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

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Cast: Trix Zwartjes