
Christian Manders
Oyuncu
Filmler6
- Film5.4
A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.
Visual Training
1969 · 31 votes
- Film6.0Belgesel
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
- Film
Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees.
Beyond
1992
Film5.2DramZwartjes 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
- Film
An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.
Dolls
1968
- Film4.5Dram
An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.
Spare Bed-Room
1969 · 4 votes