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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    Chance Meetings 1 + 2

    Chance Meetings 1: In these short silent films (each is about 30 seconds long), chance encounters play the central role. In a fixed and immobile frame, two men meet. This does not result in any actual contact; the two men only look at...

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    Cirkels 1

    A man swings around a light affixed to a cable, which systematically increases its radius.

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    Cirkels 2

    Van Munster again conducts his experiment, but this time for the video camera.

    See: Cirkels 1

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    City at Night (AMS)

    In addition to being a thriller without dialogue, this experimental black and white film is a portrait of a city at night. The camera slowly pans along the corridors of a parking garage, past the houses on the canal, and the ceiling of an...

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    Color Slidings

    Abstract colour compositions in yellow, red, and blue, created using an optical printer, are assembled layer by layer. To accomplish this, the filmmaker used film footage that he had already processed, scratched, and painted. Seip was trying to...

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    Convalescing

    Convalescing is when you do not have to participate in the world. Time to take a look at how much it is worth to be able to read, to dream, and to watch.

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    Crescendo

    A metronome ticks on a mantelpiece. The rhythm transforms into a montage of light and dark. It ticks faster and faster until a stroboscopic effect is achieved.

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    A Cutting Gunlover and a Knife

    Film as the Droste effect, due to the showing of an editing table and studio lights. These are some rather ‘steamy’ shots that show the fantasy of the editor, and the events are a fantasy of the protagonist. Fantasy prevails over reality.

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    Dada

    A short film about Dada, seen through the eyes of eleven students from the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung, in Würzburg-Schweinfurt.

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    Departure on Arrival

    I made Departure on Arrival in the way that I think a memory works: with recurring images – people, trains, fields – that each appear a little bit differently every time. If you think back on something, it’s never the same. By changing...

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