Jaap Pieters Movies

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various...

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city.

A partly mirrored single shot of an early morning Toronto street scene on a single reel Tri-X Super 8mm. The film shows us a complex still life, absorbing all the details in its lightest as well as in its darkest parts of the image.

High stacks of cups wobble unsteadily on a running washing machine.

Kim, a dancer, gets a foot massage from Steven, a drummer.

A furious man with a bottle and can...

Jaap Pieters passionately takes photographs and films, mainly on Super8, of the world around him: vagabonds, drunkards, striking incidence of light, the beauty of decay. In this way he has built up an oeuvre that is appreciated by a small group of film lovers all over the world. In his house, he...

A tree stands at the foot a towering wooden structure in Istanbul.

Kindergarteners make numerous attempts to lift a pumpkin.

A portrait of Jaap's good friend Willem.

A man stands on a sidewalk, holding a model airplane aloft...

While filming a portrait of Dutch filmmaker Jaap Pieters, he evoked memories of a Lebanese friend who had disappeared, and his desire to trace his footsteps / to track him down. This project matched our own desire to learn about the state of Lebanese cinema today. We offered Jaap Pieters to travel...

A homeless man tries to keep his daily movements in line and order... The intimacy of a private life on the street, filmed from the inside of a third floor apartment.

A man stands in the middle of the market, playing a stringless ukulele.

From his bedroom window on the second floor, Pieters films the unloading of meat.

A homeless man in a street-worker’s jacket enthusiastically regulates traffic in De Pijp.

A silver-coloured tarp undulates over a field.

A visual chain of 'encounters' in which the camera is moved by the movement of the people. A chain-reaction as a domino-row where our eye is forced to follow the next & the next & the next....

This silent film provokes the anger of the man in our heads, the anger we can see but can't hear & at the same time the man tries to acquire something from the passers-by that either seems to be ignored, not understood or not available... & again the anger bursts out....