Henri Plaat
Biography
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 small hand-held 16-millimeter camera. The travel films were almost always about the beauty of decay and lost glory. Spurs of Tango, a quest that was filmed in several South American countries in search of a glimmer of the tango’s heyday, won a Golden Calf in 1981.
Plaat’s short fiction films were often about the Second World War, and usually have absurd elements; this category would include the films Second War Hats, for which Plaat received the L.J. Jordaan Prize in 1987.
filmography
- 1968—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1968—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1970—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1972—Camera, Director, Producer
- 1972—Director, Producer
- 1973—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1973—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1976—Camera, Director, Producer
- 1977—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1978—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1980—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1980—Director
- 1981—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1983—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1986—Actor, Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1989—Camera, Editing
- 1989—Director, Editing, Producer
- 1989—Camera, Director, Editing, Script writer
- 1990—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1991—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
- 1991—Camera, Director
- 1995—Director, Editing, Producer
- 1997—Camera, Director, Editing
- 2004—Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
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