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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    Slippery Slope

    A house with constantly changing interiors, surrounded by different types of landscapes, is shown from various angles, in response to music.

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    Somersault Sally or: the Manipulation of Cinema

    A film loop made with material from the 1930s.

     

    We see a girl making a number of somersaults, accompanied by rolling. The way that the images have been edited gives the viewer the illusion that everything has been done in a single...

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    Something Heavy

    A music video for the pop band Golden Earring.

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    Song for Four Hands

    A man and a woman hold a wordless conversation: a film dialogue.

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    Souslevent

    A man and a woman in a desolate landscape; the camera interrupts their walks until they meet. Then a game of attraction and repulsion sets in; filmed in the typical nervous theatrical style that characterizes the early work of Ketelaars.

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    Regen

    A Dutch symphony of a city.

    For two years, Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken worked on this cinematic poem about a passing rain shower in Amsterdam. At the beginning, it is dry. Then the clouds gather and the canopies flutter in the rising...

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    Space-Modulation

    The starting point for Space-Modulation is the discovery of the moment at which a two-dimensional image transforms into a three-dimensional space. Vegter shows this on the basis of a pattern of 196 points that move relative to each other...

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    Spare Bedroom

    A woman and a man during their initially hesitant, ill-boding contact. This soon grows into the taking and harassment of the woman. As he is busy with her, his other ‘I’ looks on and sees a much wilder woman with enormous breasts.

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    Spectator

    Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between husband and wife. It is a relationship that is strongly marked by power and domination, sexual...

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    Spiegelzaal

    Choreography for an inquisitive camera in the Mirror Hall and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw.

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