Dutch film history

This database contains information about film in the Netherlands, and is gradually being expanded. At this moment, you can find information about early films (from ca. 1900-1930) and about experimental films.

Note: Many records provide information about a film, but do not show the film itself (due to copyright restrictions, or because the film has been lost over the course of time). Click here to see a list of films that can actually be viewed.

 

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    Ariadne

    Spots of light in a dark room. Flickering shadows on the wall. Slowly the spots become recognizable as a hand, a piece of cotton rope, and a spinning wheel. The sounds of passing trains, ships, and automobiles are intertwined with minimalist...

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    Armature

    Luyken reads aloud autobiographical texts, as we see images of a performance by Eve Heyningen as Ophelia. Around the lake are sixteen stones that represent sixteen people. We also see Luyken’s sons canoeing and skiing. The black and...

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    At One View

    Two men philosophize in front of a fireplace on the subject of whether photography is art or not.

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    Attune

    We see two large, split windows on the upper floor of an Amsterdam house. The white cotton curtains open up and close in stages (using jump cuts).

    Later, a woman appears in the picture: she opens and closes the curtains in stages (...

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    Au revoir...

    A blind man walks on the street, on ice, on a sand hill, and along an embankment barrier in the nature around Holysloot, in the municipality of Amsterdam.

    This short film was made as a trailer for a film that has yet to be made, titled ...

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    Audition

    Because many of Zwartjes’ films are actually silent films, without any dialogue or direct sound, the music always plays the key role. Zwartjes made that music himself, often with his brother Rudolf and Lodewijk de Boer. Audition is a...

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    Automaddix

    Two men in colourfully painted suits sit close together in the back seat of a car, and make jokes using a handkerchief, eyeglasses, and a hat.

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    Backward

    A film from the first Filmblikken series, which was produced in 1997 by the Filmstad foundation in The Hague. Visual artist Wesselo sits backwards on a bareback horse and gallops across a towpath. The film is a record of this physical...

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    Het beademen van de beeldbuis

    The face of Boezem appears on the television screen. He stares at the viewer and fogs up the picture with his breath. After a while, the image is completely covered, and the artist disappears for few seconds. He is trying to create a space that...

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    Bedsitters

    Bedsitters takes place on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ still-new, empty house in The Hague. The filmmaker evokes a mysterious and complex space by using a ‘floating’ camera to film some creeping and mysterious characters. Even...

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