Frans Zwartjes

Hailed by Susan Sontag as "the most important experimental filmmaker of his generation," Medea is the Dutch master's strident, confrontational take on the Euripides tragedy, performed and adapted for stage by Ganci Geraedts and Josee Ruiter. (rarefilmm.com)

A parachute jump is performed by an artist and his girlfriend at the opening of an exhibition in the artist's studio. An art dealer and a number of friends are invited to the event. (imdb)

In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure and inhuman experiments, in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another.

Strange characters in sunglasses or masks run around on a landing and stairs of a house like explorers in a strange landscape, opening doors, doing strange things in the bathroom, attempting to enter closets and peek into doors. (The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre)

Audition is a good example of a film with a wonderful music tape. The film is a visual improvisation between camera and actors, virtually no storyline - a man looks and listens to a woman singing, while another woman watches - and thrilling mainly in black and white images. The music, too, is based on improvisations. With Christian Manders, Tineke and Moniek Toebosch.

A definitely non-narrative expression of domestic sexual anxiety. (IMDB)

Radio push buttons, a glass containing an effervescent tablet, an alarm clock, men and women in a room. (moskwood)

Two women, Zwartjes' regular acresses Moniek Toebosch and Trix Zwartjes, are sitting side by side on a bench; they are looking at a photo of a mountain landscape. The physical attraction between the two is clearly perceptible but nothing happens... (ubuweb)

International prize-winning film from Zwartjes' series Home Sweet Home, with Moniek Toebosch and Christian Manders as two sombre personages who are engaged in a claustrophobic game of attraction and repulsion. (ubuweb)

Christian Manders and Moniek Toebosch act the artist and his model. Safely hidden behind his camera, the photographer cannot get enough of his bewitching model with the long eye-lashes. (ubu.com)

Film in three parts. A man and a woman, Trix Zwartjes and Lodewijk de Boer (Zwartjes's regular actors) circle around each other in a house and outside at the water side. They attract and reject each other. (moskwood)

A seemingly imperturbable man gets involved in a food orgy with two voluptuous, half-naked women. All the actions - one of the women is blindfolded and sprinkled with baking powder, after which lots of food is smeared about - have a strong sinister charge. Make-up, lighting and the editing reinforce this effect. With Christian Manders, Trix Zwartjes and others. (ubuweb)

A black-and-white film, rich in contrast and edited in-camera, about a woman, a Japanese toy bird and their relation to the viewer. With Trix Zwartjes. (ubu)

This experimental film features a person who looks like a transgender, anxiously waiting and looking upon, with a fan

One of Zwartjes' first films, displays the strong influence of the New American Cinema he so admired. It examines the interplay between the restless eye of the camera and the equally neurotic actions of the cross-dressing protagonist, Lodewijk de Boer. (ubu.com)