Frans Zwartjes
Frans Zwartjes (*Alkmaar, 1927) is a film maker, musician, violin maker, artist and sculptor. In the late 1960's he became well known with films showing grotesquely dressed up actors involved in little power-mad sexual games. Hysterics and cruelty are his regular topics. Susan Sontag called Zwartjes "the most important contemporary experimental film maker". Zwartjes made over fifty films. Pentimento (1979), Living (1971) and Ín Extremo (1981) seem to be his best known films. Director Ruud Monster's documentary The Great Wizard portrays Zwartjes as a self-conscious artist who comments on the world in a farcical way. The film was partly shot at Zwartjes's home, while he was composing.
It's Me
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It's Me
(Music)
It's Me
(Director of Photography)
It's Me
(Production Design)
Visual Training
(Director)
Spectator
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Living
(Director)
Spare Bed-Room
(Director)
Birds, One
(Director)
Pentimento
(Director)
Bedsitters
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Sorbet '3'
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Behind Your Walls
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Audition
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Anamnesis
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A Fan
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Seats Two
(Director)
Bedsitters
(Producer)
Bedsitters
(Sound Designer)
Moving Stills
(Music)
Moving Stills
(Director)
Medea
(Director)
Sorbet II
(Cinematography)
Sorbet II
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Rudi van Dantzig repeteert
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They Are Five
(Cinematography)
Through the Garden and Into the Living
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How Did You Know I Was in Trouble
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Toilet
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How Did You Know I Was in Trouble
(Music)
Through the Garden and Into the Living
(Music)
They Are Five
(Director)
film fragments
(Director)
The Great Magician
(Writer)
Living
(Sound)
Living
(Cinematography)
In Extremo
(Director)
Medea
(Director of Photography)
Pentimento
(Writer)
Film II
(Director)
Dolls
(Cinematography)
Dolls
(Director)
Beyond
(Original Music Composer)
Beyond
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Beyond
(Director of Photography)
Eating
(Director)
Eating
(Original Music Composer)
Compilatie
(Director)
Collage
(Director)
Pentimento
(Director of Photography)
Pentimento
(Sound Designer)
Pentimento
(Producer)
Pentimento
(Editor)