Trix Zwartjes

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

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...

Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space...

A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.

To Tea, made in Holland (at the house of the Dutch avant-garde filmmaker Franz Zwartjes), is a slowed ‘Alice in Roomland’.A guide to...

In this experimental film we see people in varying combinations walking and crawling through sand and grass and along the waterfront in a very quick...

Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.

Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the grass and people at the table. A film from the series...

A selection of never-before-seen cinema sketches by Zwartjes, compiled by Stanley Schtinter with music from Zwartjes' record Tapes I.

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

"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the...

Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.

Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like...

The central element in this film is formed by the preparation for and execution of a performance. The performance, a parachute jump, is carried out...

Two girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. Sexuality is suggested through the weird rhythm of...

To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost. Zwartjes started...

Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.