Christian Manders Movies

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 important soundtrack. It is a visual improvisation of...

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

An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.

Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees.

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 and repulsion. It manifests itself in...