Karin Wiertz
Biography
Karin Wiertz studied at the Academie voor Industriële Vormgeving in Eindhoven, where she took classes with teachers including Frans Zwartjes. She met Jacques Verbeek, with whom she made a number of experimental animation films between 1971 and 1988. Wiertz acted in a number of these films, and also in several films made by fellow filmmakers.
Their films excel as sophisticated games of space, light, and shadow. Using a combination of different animation techniques (drawing and photo animation, stop motion), they create their own architectural worlds with built spaces made from geometric figures such as cubes or triangles, suggesting a third dimension.
The music in their films is almost always made by Bertus Borgers.
In 1973, Verbeek and Wiertz received the Billiton Van der Rijn Prize, an award for filmmakers who have contributed to the development of film in the Netherlands.
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filmography
- 1972—Director
- 1972—Director, Producer
- 1972—Director, Producer
- 1973—Actor, Director, Producer
- 1974—Actor
- 1974—Actor
- 1974—Director
- 1975—Actor, Director, Producer
- 1976—Actor
- 1976—Director
- 1977—Director
- 1978—Actor, Director, Editing
- 1981—Director
- 1987—Director, Producer
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