Frans Zwartjes
Born: 1927-05-13 in Alkmaar, Netherlands
Died: 2017-11-18
Known For: Directing
Biography
Frans Zwartjes (*Alkmaar, 5/13/1927–The Hague, 11/18/2017) was 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.
Filmography
2015
- film fragments ... (Director)
2006
1992
- Beyond ... (Original Music Composer)
1984
- Rudi van Dantzig repeteert ... (Director)
1982
- Medea ... (Director)
1981
- In Extremo ... (Director)
1979
- Pentimento ... (Director)
1976
- It's Me ... (Director)
1975
- Body Art ... (Cinematography)
1974
- Bedsitters ... (Director)
1973
- Audition ... (Director)
1972
- Moving Stills ... (Music)
1971
1970
- Spectator ... (Director)
- Through the Garden and Into the Living ... (Director)
- They Are Five ... (Cinematography)
- Toilet ... (Director)
- How Did You Know I Was in Trouble ... (Director)
- Behind Your Walls ... (Director)
- Seats Two ... (Director)
1969
- Visual Training ... (Director)
- Eating ... (Director)
- Compilatie ... (Director)
- Anamnesis ... (Director)
- Spare Bed-Room ... (Director)
- Collage ... (Director)
1968
- Birds, One ... (Director)
- Sorbet '3' ... (Director)
- Dolls ... (Cinematography)
- Sorbet II ... (Cinematography)
- A Fan ... (Director)
1967
- Film II ... (Director)