Frans Zwartjes Movies

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...

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

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

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

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

A man in drag sits on a couch holding a fan. The wallpaper behind him is floral patterned. Although the man does little more than looking around and...

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

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

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

Short film by Frans Zwartjes

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...