Frans Zwartjes
Frans Zwartjes (*Alkmaar, 1927) is a film maker, musician, violin maker, artist and sculptor. In the late 1960's he became well known with films showing grotesquely dressed up actors involved in little power-mad sexual games. Hysterics and cruelty are his regular topics. Susan Sontag called Zwartjes "the most important contemporary experimental film maker". Zwartjes made over fifty films. Pentimento (1979), Living (1971) and Ín Extremo (1981) seem to be his best known films. Director Ruud Monster's documentary The Great Wizard portrays Zwartjes as a self-conscious artist who comments on the world in a farcical way. The film was partly shot at Zwartjes's home, while he was composing.
Crew
It's Me
Director, Production Design, Director of Photography, Music
Spare Bed-Room
Director
Living
Director, Cinematography, Sound
Birds, One
Director
Visual Training
Director
Spectator
Director
Pentimento
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Sound Designer
Bedsitters
Director, Sound Designer, Producer
Sorbet '3'
Director
Behind Your Walls
Director
Seats Two
Director
Audition
Director
A Fan
Director
Anamnesis
Director
Moving Stills
Director, Music
Medea
Director, Director of Photography
Sorbet II
Cinematography, Director
Rudi van Dantzig repeteert
Director
They Are Five
Director, Cinematography
Toilet
Director
How Did You Know I Was in Trouble
Music, Director
Through the Garden and Into the Living
Music, Director
film fragments
Director
The Great Magician
Writer
In Extremo
Director, Cinematography
Film II
Director
Beyond
Director of Photography, Director, Original Music Composer
Dolls
Cinematography, Director
Eating
Original Music Composer, Director
Compilatie
Director
Collage
Director
Body Art
Cinematography