Frans Zwartjes

Frans Zwartjes

b. 1927 — d. 2017 (aged 90) Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Cinematographer Composer Director

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.

Known For

It's Me

Pentimento

Filmography

De grote tovenaar

De grote tovenaar

2001 Director Composer Cinematographer

How Did You Know I Was in Trouble

1997 Director Composer

1993 Director Cinematographer

About Truus Bronkhorst

1991 Director Composer Cinematographer

1986 Director Cinematographer

Rudi van Dantzig repeteert

Ik hou gewoon mijn adem in

Medea

1982 Director Cinematographer

Moord in de Cuyperspoort

Sportief en toch gekleed

1980 Director Composer

Pentimento

1979 Director Writer Cinematographer

1979 Director Composer

It's Me

1976 Director Writer Composer Cinematographer

Bedsitters

About Seven Minutes

1974 Director Composer

1974 Director Composer

1974 Director Composer

Audition

1972 Director Composer

Filmdecor Opera Blauwbaard

1972 Actor Director

Living

1971 Actor Director

Behind Your Walls

Achter je muren

Through the Garden into the Living

1970 Director Composer

1970 Director Cinematographer

Visual Training

Visual Training

1969 Director Cinematographer

Anamnesis

1969 Director Composer

Lijkensynode Stage-play

1968 Director Writer Cinematographer

Sorbet '3'

1968 Director Cinematographer

1968 Director Cinematographer

1968 Director Cinematographer

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