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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    Nix-on-Nixon

    A photo-collage about the modern visual culture at the beginning of the 1960s.

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    Nooit varen boten in de bergen

    Impressions of Greece; memories that fade and thereby become more personal.

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    Nostalghia Places

    Homage from a humble anonymous filmmaker to a great master. We visit two locations in Tuscany that play a major role in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Nostalghia: an old gothic church without a roof, and a thermal bath located in the centre of...

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    Now That You Are Gone

    Decay becomes something touching at the Père Lachaise cemetery, where the filmmaker passionately films a woman weeping at the grave of Chopin, even though it was her own beloved that she had just lost. Wobbling gelatine puddings lose themselves...

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    Nowhere

    The film consists of three meditative shots, with the subtitles Before, During…, and After. Together, these three shots form a metaphorical confrontation with the following argument: ‘Life is captivity, and is sandwiched between...

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    Obscure/Reveal

    Inspired by Rita McBride’s Arena and the contrary effects that ​​the work evokes, Karel Doing and Greg Pope made an installation of projected light and film footage of shadows and silhouettes of human figures, supplemented by the shadows...

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    Observations 1: My Street

    Observations are six short documentaries which examine everyday life in a melancholy and humorous way. The observations radiate the joy of looking.

    1 - My Street

    Construction work on an Amsterdam street.

    2 - Evening...

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    Ogendans

    Only a woman’s head is visible. She looks at the lower left side of the frame.

    This film was used, much like two other films by Hazekamp, as a background projection during the performance of the dance project ‘Dido’. During the performance...

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    Oidan Skroeba

    A woman dances on a floor with sand, which creates more and patterns in the sand. In the background is a wall or canvas with oversized art and craft-like motifs.

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    On the Road a Smiling Stone

    A Chinese boy stares impassively at the camera, as if it were a contest. A group of people look suspicious, and remain at a distance. Another boy dares to shyly smile.

    Tranquil images of a desolate plain, screaming children in a classroom,...

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