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Ruud Monster followed Frans Zwartjes’ film workshops at the Vrije Academie in The Hague from 1970 to 1976. His first film, Dormitory Town, a portrait of daily life filmed in an apartment in Amsterdam’s Bijlmermeer, still bears clear...

Jerry Musser is originally an American artist. He worked as an actor and co-director on a number of short films by Paul de Nooijer.

Victor Nieuwenhuijs studied political science at the University of Amsterdam, and then painting at the Academie Ateliers ‘63 in Haarlem. Beginning in 1984, he has made films together with Maartje Seyferth. Nieuwenhuijs and Seyferth have their own...

Menno de Nooijer is the son of Paul and Françoise de Nooijer. He studied at the art academy in Tilburg, and made his first films in the late 1980s. These were strongly inspired by his father’s films. Since the 1990s, Paul and Menno de Nooijer...

Françoise de Nooijer is the wife of Paul de Nooijer. She has acted in many of Paul de Nooijer’s films, and also works as a producer on his films.

Mike Paschenegger, together with Luc Boyer and Armand Perrenet, is one of the most important actors in the films of Frans Zwartjes and his students. This is why Gertjan Zuilhof included him in the so-called Hague School that formed around...

Henri Plaat trained as a typographer, and began his career as a graphic artist. He began as a visual artist in 1963, with gouaches, collages and photographs. From 1966 onwards, he also made short fiction films and travel films, usually with a...

Dick Rijneke followed his film studies at the Vrije Academie in The Hague, and made his first films with Frans Zwartjes. These were short films that, in terms of form and content, show strong similarities with other films that were made and...