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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    Oot oak aas

    A man in a snowy landscape. Cycling, running, and falling, with blood on his head, he continues on.

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    Other Thoughts I

    Black and white clips from around the world (from Auschwitz to India) that are edited in an indefinable order to create a kind of moving photography. The filmmaker makes remarkable use of light on black. The choice of images is an aesthetic one,...

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    Other Thoughts III

    Portraits of people connected to each other via long shots of the sea, and blocks of houses in the evening atmosphere. It resembles bits of dreams, almost to the point of being surrealistic. A woman with opera glasses watches a clown who commits...

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    Other Thoughts II

    This film (again) shows a fascination for black and white: the film material comes from different areas, and covers several years. Everywhere and always, decay comes back, and reality is depicted. The same feeling of melancholy exists here as it...

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    Painted Monitor

    An evening of television is apparently reduced to a few minutes. The image is blue, with an occasional hint of red for contrast.

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    A Palace

    In a medieval chapel, students from the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung in Würzburg-Schweinfurt express, in photos and text, their thoughts on the theme of ‘baroque’.

    Paul de Nooijer made this film in collaboration with his students.

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    Passage

    Various locations: a road, the interior of a house, a mountain landscape, a dike with a lighthouse, and a cemetery, most of which are filmed using travelling shots. People move slowly and laboriously.

    A returning motive is the crucifix,...

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    Passive and the Rude, The

    Jerry King Musser, wearing a camouflage jacket and ‘war paint’ for the occasion, trying to get Paul de Nooijer out of his cot and to watch over the landing in the desired position.

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    Penelope

    Waiting is a state between impatience and resignation. Penelope gives form to waiting, alternating between static and nervously moving images. Occasionally we hear snatches of a text spoken by an actress in an old Hollywood movie. She...

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    Pentimento

    The title Pentimento refers to a concept from painting, namely the fact that in earlier times, paintings were often painted over. Through a chemical reaction, the old painting can been seen through the new painting.

    In Zwartjes’...

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