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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    Horizontalen

    The illusion of perspective depth is one of the means by which the spectator is fooled. This is a film without an external subject; there is only light and movement. Like sunlight, reflected through waves of water onto a white wall.

    By...

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    Hors d'oeuvre

    Twelve different everyday events that become special and sometimes even absurd by virtue of their ordinariness.

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    Hosanna

    An absurdist film about a man who lies dying, creeping in the mud. Next to him is the decomposing body of a second man. In between we see images of an abused dog. At the end of the film, the wounded man is taken to the hospital.

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    How Did You Know I Was in Trouble

    Observations of a woman with a Japanese mask dressed in a large painted robe. She moves along the ground amid a (photographed or painted) backdrop of trees and a Japanese window. In the beginning, she is restless and her movements occasionally...

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    How to Make a New York Cake

    A naked woman, smeared with flour, makes a cake on a sofa. Behind the sofa, a boy appears with a toy airplane, against the background of wallpaper with a New York print. He shoots pink icing on the cake and the woman.

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    Hunt down

    Two men fight each other in a harbour area at night. They briefly lose sight of each other, and then again become embroiled in a fight. The chase and the fights sometimes take the form of a dance.

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    I Am an Old Smoking, Moving Indian Movie-star

    A cheerful Indian lady, wearing jewellery and a black veil, chats on camera. The viewer only sees what she is talking about in terms of images, and does not hear what she says. When her lips are not moving, with her red-painted nails and fingers...

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    I Remember

    The starting point for this film was to visualize a person’s memories; in this case, those of a ‘sculptor’.

    The film does not follow a story, but instead represents serval aspects of those memories (including time alignment, dreams,...

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    I Should See

    In an artificial mountain landscape, the father and son De Nooijer reflect on film and photography. The visual difference between the two media is explained.

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    III Industry, Intelligence, Integrity

    ‘Industry, Intelligence, Integrity’ are the three words that form the insignia of the city of Toronto.

    Four synchronously operating businessmen lead us on an associative trip through the city. They follow their own choreography, and take us...

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