Frans Zwartjes is a filmmaker, musician,
violin-maker, painter and sculptor. In the late-60s he was one of the first
Dutch visual artists to take up film, initially to document his performances
and soon after as an independent medium perfectly suited to his way of creating
visual art. His mind-bending works caused a furor, with psychological
black-and-white imagery of heavily made-up and over-dressed actors from his
circle of friends. Focused on sexually-loaded power games, hysteria, psychosis
and cruelty, his films are largely edited 'in-camera'. "My own motor
system determined the film style", Zwartjes stated in an interview.
Zwartjes's oeuvre includes over forty films and his style has left a strong
stamp on at least two generations of experimental filmmakers in Holland.
(source : http://anthologyfilmarchives.org)
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Birds
Drected by Frans Zwartjes
Produced by
Distributed by
Release dates(s) 1968
Running time 7 minutes 58 seconds
Country Netherlands
Language
Drected by Frans Zwartjes
Produced by
Distributed by
Release dates(s) 1968
Running time 7 minutes 58 seconds
Country Netherlands
Language
