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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    The Eareye Seeshears

    Compilation program by Frank Scheffer:

    1. Opus I, II,III, IV, Walter Ruttmann (1920-1925)

    2. Symphonie diagonale, Viking Eggeling (1921)

    3. Rhythmus 21, Hans Richter (1921)

    4. Anemic cinema...

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    Easy Action Animated

    A man and a woman, are in a closed cube that continuously rotates. Using animation, it is possible to look inside this moving space because walls are removed and replaced at just the right moment.

    The movements of these two people form a...

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    Eating

    Three women with masks, one with a man’s mask, during a meal. It degenerates into total destruction.

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    Ecce homo - zie de mens

    Ecce homo narrates, almost silently, the story of a man and a woman who meet once again and try to repeat an experience that they had previously shared. They exchange glances in a bus, and the framing and editing alone make palpable the...

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    Echelon

    Echelon begins with images of Luyken’s sons, who are hitting pieces of a sarcophagus. We then see images of performances that depict a disabled woman, followed by shots of wrecked trains. In contrast to these images of destruction are...

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    Energy Energy

    A found-footage film composed of corporate videos, instructional films, and promotional films from the past century. Rotating machinery, transportation, mining and oil drilling: forward thinking and technological developments are festively...

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    Entr'acte

    Against the background of a white wall, Luyken films two performances. The images are interspersed with one another: a man and a woman are painted with white paint, while another couple is wrapped in paper and coloured with paint.

    The...

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    Erasmus Spitzen

    Two men and a woman, dressed as office clerks, perform a choreography on Rotterdam’s Erasmus Bridge.

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    Escalating Egg

    A painted man and woman play with an egg; the man then drains it across the woman’s chest, then finishes the artwork by throwing on some flour.

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    Este coche

    Éste coche shows a series of cars, a few shiny and polished, but most rusted out. The models suggest that they have been standing still for decades, left for dead on the curb. In the Netherlands, they would all have been given a parking...

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