Person
Frans Zwartjes
Directing · 1927–2017 · Alkmaar, Netherlands
Biography
Frans Zwartjes (*Alkmaar, 5/13/1927–The Hague, 11/18/2017) was 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.
Known for
Pentimento
Director
Spectator
Director
Visual Training
Director
Sorbet '3'
Director
Beyond
Director of Photography
Compilatie
Director
Film II
Director
Medea
Director
In Extremo
Director
Birds, One
Director
Filmography
- 2015film fragmentsDirector
- 2006The Great Magician
- 1992BeyondDirector of Photography
- 1984Rudi van Dantzig repeteertDirector
- 1982MedeaDirector
- 1981In ExtremoDirector
- 1979PentimentoDirector
- 1976It's MeDirector
- 1975Body ArtCinematography
- 1974BedsittersDirector
- 1973AuditionDirector
- 1972Moving StillsDirector
- 1971Living
- 1970Seats TwoDirector
- 1970They Are FiveDirector
- 1970ToiletDirector
- 1970How Did You Know I Was in TroubleMusic
- 1970Through the Garden and Into the LivingMusic
- 1970SpectatorDirector
- 1970Behind Your WallsDirector
- 1969Visual TrainingDirector
- 1969Spare Bed-RoomDirector
- 1969AnamnesisDirector
- 1969EatingOriginal Music Composer
- 1969CompilatieDirector
- 1969CollageDirector
- 1968Sorbet '3'Director
- 1968Birds, OneDirector
- 1968A FanDirector
- 1968Sorbet IICinematography
- 1968DollsCinematography
- 1967Film IIDirector
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