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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    Matthijs Blonk

    Matthijs Blonk followed the film education program at the Vrije Academie in The Hague. He has been making films since 1976. Initially these were abstract animated films, and later more documentary-style films in which he portrayed Amsterdam’s...

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    Lodewijk de Boer

    Lodewijk de Boer trained as a violinist at the Amsterdam Conservatory. He then worked as a violist for Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra. Beginning in the mid-1960s, he also became also involved in the theatre arts. He wrote the libretto for...

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    Marinus Boezem

    Marinus Boezem was one of the leading conceptual artists of the 1960s, alongside Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk. In his art, he ‘dematerializes’ the artwork; his sculptures are constructed using intangible elements such as air, light, and movement....

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    Luc Boyer

    Luc Boyer is an actor who frequently appeared in films made by Frans Zwartjes and his students. In his article 'Frans Zwartjes en de Haagse School' (‘Frans Zwartjes and the Hague School’), Gertjan Zuilhof includes Boyer as a member of this school...

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    Emile Brumsteede

    Emile Brumsteede studied at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Art) in The Hague. He then worked as an illustrator, filmmaker, and film critic, and authored several film books.

    He was one of the driving forces behind The...

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    Nico Crama

    In addition to his work as a filmmaker, Nico Crama is also a producer of short films and animated films. Beginning in the mid-1960s, he produced many animated films for e.g. Rupert van der Linden, Paul Driessen, Borge Ring, Gerrit van Dijk, and...

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    Frans Dupont

    Frans Dupont was one of the young filmmakers who gathered around the Filmliga and Studio Joris Ivens at the beginning of the 1930s. Along with Willem Bon, he was one of the leading forces behind the Filmtechnische Leergang (FTL), which was an...

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    Andras Hamelberg

    After a course at the audio-visual department of Amsterdam’s Theaterschool, Andras Hamelberg attended the Vrije Academie in The Hague and the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam.

    Hamelberg has been making films since 1976. His earliest films still...

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    René Hazekamp

    René Hazekamp followed the film course at the HRITCS in Brussels, and finished that education in 1986. Since then, he has directed a number of short dance films for his own company Stichting Cendrillon, 1899. For those projects, he has usually...

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    Noud Heerkens

    Noud Heerkens briefly studied philosophy and architecture, and since the late 1970s he has made films, as well as film and video installations. His first films show an affinity with the work of filmmakers from the Hague School, but his films...

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