Trix Zwartjes
Actor
Movies16
Movie8.0The 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.
In Extremo
1981 · 1 votes
Movie6.9DramaRomanceFrans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.
Living
1971 · 16 votes
Movie5.6DramaHorrorIn 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.
Pentimento
1979 · 14 votes
Movie6.6DocumentarySet 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)
Bedsitters
1974 · 7 votes
Movie6.2DramaRomanceFilm 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.
Anamnesis
1969 · 6 votes
- Movie8.0
Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.
Eating
1969 · 1 votes
- Movie4.5Romance
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
Seats Two
1970 · 2 votes
- Movie5.3
A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.
Birds, One
1968 · 6 votes
- Movie
An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.
Compilatie
1969
Movie7.0To 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.
To Tea
1970 · 1 votes
- Movie5.4
A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.
Visual Training
1969 · 31 votes
- Movie
Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.
Toilet
1970
Movie5.0Documentary"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.
- Movie
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.
- Movie5.2Drama
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
Behind Your Walls
1970 · 9 votes
- Movie
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.
They Are Five
1970