Christian Manders

Movies6

• Movie6.0

  Documentary

  Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between husband and wife. It is a relationship that is strongly marked by power and domination, sexual attraction and repulsion. It manifests itself in humiliation and abuse (such Pentimento), but also in cool eroticism or natural physicality. Zwartjes’ goal is not to explain or designate this relationship. Rather it is the subject that Zwartjes uses to describe his world. In an article on Zwartjes, filmmaker and student George Schouten compares Zwartjes to the Italian writer Alberto Moravia. For both, sex is their way of dealing with reality. It is the subject by which they define their world. And for Zwartjes, it is also the subject with which he can display and develop his cinematic talent. (eyefilm.nl)

  Spectator

  1970 · 10 votes

• Movie

  Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees.

  Beyond

  1992

• Movie5.2

  Drama

  Zwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with his brother Rudolf and Lodewijk de Boer. Audition is a fine example of a Zwartjes film with an important soundtrack. It is a visual improvisation of cinematography and acting. There is hardly a ‘story line’. A man and a woman watch another woman singing, predominantly in exciting black and white images.

  Audition

  1973 · 6 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

  An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

  Dolls

  1968

• Movie4.5

  Drama

  An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.

  Spare Bed-Room

  1969 · 4 votes