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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    De blikjesman

    A man is trying to put empty cans into his torn coat pockets. There appear to be more and more cans lying on the street.

    The films of Jaap Pieters are rarely more than three minutes long - the length of a Super-8 cartridge. Likewise, they...

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    De blikvanger

    In an Escher-like staircase, two characters, a man a woman, move around each other, in full view of the bizarre objects in the space: an infinite clock, a miniature surveillance camera, the hose of a vacuum cleaner. The camera always chooses a...

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    Botsingen

    Botsingen is one of three surviving short films from the ‘Fllmtechnische Leergang’ course. Much like Sonate by Emiel van Moerkerken and Diepte by Frans Dupont, the film gives a good insight into the ideas and ambitions...

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    Breakfast

    An exercise for the film Eating. Here as well, we see complete destruction at breakfast.

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    Butterfly

    A short experimental film, shot in an unusually secluded cottage, comments on its temporary residents. By using black and white stills, live-action clips, a voice, and music, this poetic and atmospheric film tells the story of a woman who is...

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    El Cardenal

    A cardinal retreats into his study, a room with a macabre atmosphere of holiness. Death and transience impose themselves in the form of dead animals and rotten orange peels. The atmosphere is determined by the most bizarre props, which suggest a...

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    The Case of the Spiral Staircase

    A woman walks down a staircase of which the steps gradually become adrift, and change into triangular forms. Spatial and geometric illusions are created by the unusual camerawork and choreography.

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    Celvast

    In the early 1980s, Edward Luyken had his own studio on the Lijnbaansgracht in Amsterdam. He also lived in the studio.

    In Celvast, diary images from that period are combined with shots of performances.

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    Chance Meetings 3

    In this film recording, the camera develops into a very compelling ‘character’. The camera moves through an empty street, and seems to be searching for a subject. When the opportunity for an ‘encounter’ with a family arises, the camera...

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