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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    Gerard Holthuis

    Gerard Holthuis was trained as a sculptor, but also followed the film workshops at the Vrije Academie in The Hague. He started making films in 1979; he also works for others as a producer, cameraman, and editor. For The Hague’s Filmstad, for...

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    Frederieke Jochems

    Frederieke Jochems graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton (United States), the Vrije Academie in The Hague, and the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. She has been making films since the early 1980s, mostly for her own company...

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    Jan Ketelaars

    Jan Ketelaars studied at the Vrije Academie in The Hague from 1974 to 1977, where he mainly worked under the leadership of Paul de Mol. From 1977 to 1981 he made a series of short experimental films. In 1984, he co-directed De stad with...

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    Christine Koenigs

    Christine Koenigs followed the free-painting program at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem. In 1977, she made her first film, Regen, as part of a project that also included paintings and lithographs. For that film, she received the...

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    Tato Kotetishvili

    Tato Kotetishvili was a Georgian/Dutch filmmaker. He studied at the Theatre and Film Institute in Tbilisi, and from 1981 to 1990 worked as a director at the Georgian State Film Studio. There he made the films The Train and Anemia....

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    Ben van Lieshout

    Ben van Lieshout trained as a film sociologist at the University of Utrecht, and studied under Frans Zwartjes at the Vrije Akademie in The Hague.

    Van Lieshout debuted in the early 1980s with a number of films that he shot on Super8. One of...

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    Wim van der Linden

    Wim van der Linden is a Dutch television maker and filmmaker. In the 1960s he studied at the Nederlandse Filmacademie. He then worked as a cameraman on films including the first long feature film by Wim Verstappen, De minder gelukkige...

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    Edward Luyken

    Edward Luyken studied at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam, and is also a sculptor in addition to being a filmmaker. In the 1970s, he moved to Paris, where he made his first films.

    Since 1987, when a number of his films were...

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    Barbara Meter

    Barbara Meter graduated from the Nederlandse Filmacademie in 1963. In the early 1970s, she joined the Amsterdam Film Coop and the Studio ter Ontwikkeling van Film en Filmmanifestaties (STOFF). She was one of the driving forces behind Electric...

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    Paul de Mol

    Paul de Mol is originally a visual artist, and worked in the mid-1960s with the Haarlem-based group Ateliers ‘63, of which Frans Zwartjes was also a member. As an artist, De Mol was interested in film, and in 1971 he enrolled at the Vrije...

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