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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    Good Morning

    Van Moerkerken himself describes this film ‘as an attempt to make the most annoying movie’. A girl wakes up to an alarm clock in the morning, turns on the radio, and then dozes off again to penetrating music and loud street sounds.

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    Grave 17B

    A woman cries pitifully. This is mysterious, as if in a dream. The camera wanders around in a cemetery, dives into a grave, and emerges in the palace of the Maharaja. There a sense of alienation begins. The film was shot in Greece, Turkey, and...

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    Greece, to Me

    At the beginning of this decade, Barbara Meter made three films about Greece; a country she has come to know and cherish.

    Meter herself says about the films:

    ‘The moments captured fade away often, and sometimes only start ‘living’ in...

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    Grondslag

    Experimental dance film in a landscape of fields. Four dancers sprout from the earth and slowly manage to emerge from their native land. They learn to stand and move.

    At the end of the film, they sink back to the middle of the earth.

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    Gyromorphosis

    An abstract sculpture in the form of continuously rotating and revolving motions. The sculptures used here are ‘Space Sculptures’ by the artist Constant.

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    De Hemel is Vierkant

    An abstract film in which elementary shapes and rhythm play the main roles. The idea is to allow the viewer to experience watching in a non-purposeful way. In this meditative film, the images and the structure, which are based on rhythm and...

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    Hitler Stay Away from My Door

    In a series of photo collages and coloured static photographs, Hitler is portrayed as a crazy fool. The images follow in an associative sequence, and appear to move because they are saturated with smoke. In the background we hear cabaret music....

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    Hondekoppen

    A monologue against neo-fascism in a united Europe.

    ‘You just watch as they beat people up. People of a different race, a different faith. You just wait until you are all back in those grey suits sitting behind the barbed wire. The...

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    Hong Kong (HKG)

    In high-contrast images, Holthuis shows an image of the city of Hong Kong. But above this is a portrait of the aircraft that shave across the city to land at Kai Tak airport. It seems like the Boeing 747’s are always and everywhere in the city –...

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    Hoogstraat

    Clearly inspired by Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt (1927), in 1930 Von Barsy made (at his own expense) a film about a shopping street in Rotterdam. The unit of place (the street) defines the unit of measure (loose...

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