Trix Zwartjes
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Department: Acting
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Visual Training
Overview: A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-31
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Anamnesis
Overview: 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 outside at the water side. They attract and reject each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Bedsitters
Overview: 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 by using a ‘floating’ camera to film a number of crawling, creeping personages. (MUBI)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Birds, One
Overview: A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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To Tea
Overview: 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 sensual contact between two women. Their contact is arrived at through an arrangement of slow tactics. As the light of day goes the bodies come closer, and the piano melody floats in a distant hall. Once my Hungarian art teacher said: “If you exaggerate the objective lines you reach a stronger subjective expression.” So here the strange tea party gives over to touch. – S.D.
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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They Are Five
Overview: 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 assembly.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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Toilet
Overview: Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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Through the Garden and Into the Living
Overview: 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 Home Sweet Home.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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film fragments
Overview: 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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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-11
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Pentimento
Overview: In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another. "Pentimento" is an art-historical term for a hidden image underneath the actual image giving an indication of how the latter evolved to its current state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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The Great Magician
Overview: "The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the American essayist Susan Sontag.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-09-14
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Living
Overview: Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Behind Your Walls
Overview: Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like crisp paper about to be despoiled, a torpid heat reduces movement to fidgets and hesitations. - MIFF
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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In Extremo
Overview: 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 by an artist (Perrenet) and his girlfriend during the opening of an exhibition. As spectators to the performance, which takes place in the artist’s studio, an art dealer and several friends have been invited. The art dealer enters first, followed by Armand, who looks at some paintings made by Zwartjes; they spout the usual ‘gallery nonsense’. The art dealer appears most interested in the girlfriend. ‘My latest creation’ is how Amand introduces her. The guests who arrive thereafter are introduced in short, independent sections.
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-09-11
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Seats Two
Overview: 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 the film's editing and the tactile quality of the images. - MIFF
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-16
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Film II
Overview: To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost. Zwartjes started his career as a violinist and visual artist. He took photographs, made music and built instruments – but only really broke through with his equally craftsmanlike films.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Eating
Overview: Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Compilatie
Overview: An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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