Movies: Christian Manders

Two boys in the Fairytale Forest steal a broom from a maintenance vehicle. They run to the Fairytale Museum where they find a book with the story of Hugo. As soon as they start reading, the film begins. We see the young Hugo van den Loonsche Duynen i...

Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees....

An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes....

Zwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with his brother Rudolf and Lodewijk de Boer. Audition is a fine example of a Zwartjes film with an importan...

An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple....

Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between husband and wife. It is a relationship that is strongly marked by power and domination, sexual attraction a...

A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs....