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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    Images of a Moving City

    With particular attention paid to the everyday, director Karel Doing made a documentary poem about the city of Rotterdam and its inhabitants. In a series of high-contrast black and white images, Doing observes the people, roads, and buildings...

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    In extremo

    The central element in this film is formed by the preparation for and execution of a performance. The performance, a parachute jump, is carried out by an artist (Perrenet) and his girlfriend during the opening of an exhibition. As spectators to...

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    In Need of Space

    An abstract animated film that only uses a rotating cube shape of a fixed size. The cube is the same size as the film frame. Thus, it turns out that the vertical lines and areas of colour that rhythmically pass by are actually the ribs and...

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    Is er overeenkomst tusschen klank, rhythme en kleurafwisseling?

    In the February 1932 issue of the magazine Filmliga, Willem Bon takes an extensive look at the film experiments conducted at Studio Ivens.

    He describes two film experiments that he made himself. About the first, Is er...

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    Jimmy's ballet

    A homeless man in a street-worker’s jacket enthusiastically regulates traffic in De Pijp.

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    June

    A woman masturbates on a bed.

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    De kade

    Observations shot from a docking ship. The optical printer, with which you can duplicate and manipulate individual film frames to create a new film, brings the people waiting on the quay a bit closer.

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    Katarakt

    A live-action animation comprised of brief images (single-frame shots) and dual images about a naked man in a black space. We become extremely aware of his physicality, while the film also carries out an attack on our physical abilities.

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    Keep on Turning

    The work of Verbeek/Wiertz always contains geometric elements. This film is purely abstract: an animation of a game in perspective, with a series of cubes in motion, and an electronic, bleeping soundtrack. The film ends in a crescendo.

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    Koekoekswals

    To the music of the famous Koekoekswals, Van Moerkerken edits people and objects in motion. In the process, he makes frequent use of delay, repetition, or the reversal of images. This gives the film a playful and sometimes parody-like...

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