Frans Zwartjes
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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.
Known for
Credits
Visual Training (1969)
Director
Birds, One (1968)
Director
film fragments (2015)
Director
Collage (1969)
Director
Living (1971)
Director
Pentimento (1979)
Director
Medea (1982)
Director
In Extremo (1981)
Director
Seats Two (1970)
Director
Compilatie (1969)
Director
Bedsitters (1974)
Director
Anamnesis (1969)
Director
Eating (1969)
Director
Beyond (1992)
Director
Spectator (1970)
Director
Audition (1973)
Director
Sorbet '3' (1968)
Director
Toilet (1970)
Director
Film II (1967)
Director
Sorbet II (1968)
Director
A Fan (1968)
Director
Dolls (1968)
Director
Moving Stills (1972)
Director
Through the Garden and Into the Living (1970)
Director
It's Me (1976)
Director
Behind Your Walls (1970)
Director
Spare Bed-Room (1969)
Director
Rudi van Dantzig repeteert (1984)
Director
How Did You Know I Was in Trouble (1970)
Director
They Are Five (1970)
Director