Aap, Noot, Mies
Ruud van Hemert
Nouchka van Brakel
Barbara Meter
Mattijn Seip
Miroslav Sebestik
Ruud de Heus
Hans de Pagter
Nico van der Heude
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Ruud van Hemert
A peaceful family-life is suddenly disturbed when the children enter puberty. The children take over the house and disrupt the lives of their parents.
After Gisberts couple at the end of the film Schatjes! with their car in a large hole in the highway driving, which is then surfaced, the film begins with the father's wake, which appears to have dreamed all this. Although the children are sent to shelters, is the tense relationship between John and Danny. This will culminate in their 20-year wedding anniversary. Danny throw John out of the house, because John had a mistress for years. John then pulls on the military base where he works. But not for long. Soon John gets an affair with his mistress Jane. Until Danny's rage, now is really out for revenge. The marital strife comes to a climax on the scale NATO show where Danny enters with an Uzi and shoot wildly around him, while John high from the ceiling in a rocket. The title song 'Do not Try To Change Me "is sung by Sue Chaloner.
A nun escapes the convent to discover the real world outside. Her parents however believe that she's kidnapped.
Law student Thijs shares a house in which every room is the HQ of constant cruising for one night stands, relationships are considered a waste of lives. Suddenly Ben, his best mate since childhood, announces he passed on his room to Susan, who brings her studly boyfriend Stef, because Ben is- getting married to heiress Talita Bekooy. Thijs now remembers his old ambition to start his own restaurant, but can't get a bank loan- until Ben recommends Thijs, the till then reluctant best man, to his in-laws-to-be as MC for the society wedding of the year, Sir is pleased to hear the extravaganza budget 'reduced' to 150,000 Euros. Then Cupid's arrow hits Thijs himself and Susan, but when the banker tells dad Bekooy he's totally inexperienced and poor, it all crumbles down. Yet the boy bravely perseveres...
While camping in France, Eric and Eddy fall in with two women. Eric talks to Silke, a Ugandan studying medicine in Holland. She tells him about her life and asks about the book he's writing: it's the story of his love affair with Reza. He tells her the story and we see it in flashbacks: Reza explodes into his boring life, she's unpredictable and their relationship becomes intense.
Also Directed by Nouchka van Brakel
Short film, in which three boys want to go swimming on a Sunday afternoon, but one of the three has to look after his baby sister. They decide to take her to the park. The three of them come up with fun games to play with the baby, but they are constantly presented with new problems. However, the boys know how to find an answer to everything.
Eve lives with her husband Ad and two children somewhere in Amsterdam. Eve seems reasonably happy although she sometimes has the feeling that there's something missing in her life. Her husband – thinking Eve is depressed – sends her on a holiday to France with her girlfriend Sonja. In the south of France, on the beach, Eve meets Liliane, a young feminist and commune-dweller. Eve feels strangely drawn to Liliane
Tragic story of a wealthy woman whose sexual desires change her into a prostitute, working the streets of Paris during the 1880s.
Part of the anthology film Zwaarmoedige verhalen voor bij de centrale verwarming based on Heere Heeresma's darkly humourous short stories. This instalment is about a grocer who goes sailing with a postman whom he gets to know in a bizarre way. With Rijk de Gooyer and John Kraaijkamp Sr.
A series of four stories written by the Dutch writer Heere Heeresma.
The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.
Short film about four boys who clash with the custodian of a construction site, because the growing number of buildings impedes on their playground. They devise all kinds of tricks to infiltrate the forbidden territory.
Also Directed by Barbara Meter
Part of the Zuiver Film collection.
A rhythmical montage made from old photographs and films in which past and present merge.
Barbara Meter's first experimental film. From outside, the handheld camera surreptitiously peers at life in the living rooms of nocturnal Amsterdam. Shots of lamp shades, plants, chairs, faces and pets. A poodle stares out of the window.
People embarking on a small boat - the bustle and confusion of it. A walk and a song. A villiage square, men with coffee, women with children, and old man by himself. A painterly use of film grain.
In her recent film Up to the Sky and Much Much More, Meter uses letters sent to her by her father during World War II to provide the film's narration, while interviews with her mother expand on his opposition to fascism — as well as to constraints of any kind, including the bonds of family — and his eventual conscription to the Eastern front. Remarkably, her father's epistolary accounts of his daily life as a soldier also include fantastical watercolour illustrations of his travels, which Meter incorporates to movingly amplify the emotional resonance of a father-daughter bond made fraught by distance and war.
A day in the life of an old Ottoman bath with the bath itself as the main character -- from dawn till dusk, where the light, the mirroring in the water and the visitors figure alongside the protagonist .
They can be seen in the whole of Greece: the small and humble buildings along the roadside dedicated to a saint. Often a burning candle illuminates the colourful interior. Most of them are erected to the memory of a beloved, killed in a car accident, others because someone has been miraculously saved. They are the evidence of a daily devotion and are called 'proskynitaria' or 'ikonismata'. The older ones many have been built becuase somebody had a significant dream on the spot, or to indicate the place of a former church or perhaps to protect the entrance of a house against ill luck. Each 'proskynitari' has its own story. This documentary tells us some of these stories and shows an importnat aspect of how the Greek people deal with death and what role religion plays in everyday life.
After eight years of feminist activism, ANDANTE MA NON TROPPO was Meters’ first step back towards experimental film. The camera observes a street corner from a window in Meters’ house. Turkish women meet on the sidewalk outside. Children play, dogs walk by. The shots repeat, just as the actions recorded reoccur every day.
An image of early twentieth century Germany rises from a collage of family photographs and landscapes. Meter used the photo albums of her parents, who had to flee Hitler's Germany. The shots alternately exude warmth and detachment.
Part of the Zuiver Film collection.
Also Directed by Mattijn Seip
For After the Colours, Mattijn Seip filmed abstract collages of strips. The first part of the film consists of footage shot by using rotating objects that were located between the camera and the collage. The image is thus split, causing a hypnotic effect. The second part of the film consists of a single shot of collages that keep changing. The images are interrupted by shots of flat colour surfaces.
A film about the beauty of impermanence and about everything that people throw away. A mix of recognizable images from reality and abstract images, which have been painted or made using colour filters.
Photos and film footage are edited, damaged, scratched, and painted. The original images are only vaguely recognizable, as if they are already part of our ‘tainted’ memory. The film was made in response to the death of Janis Joplin.
Shots of a street filmed from a swing. An additional shutter has been mounted in front of the camera, creating a pulsating flicker effect. This causes the image to be interrupted and divided thirty times per second.
Also Directed by Miroslav Sebestik
A film about sound and hearing. Some of the world's most daring composers and musicologists probe the nature of sound and hearing in this unique documentary. The sounds of a rabbit sleeping, the rhythms of a tugboat on water, and the music inspired by industrial machines are among the sounds explored. Includes insights from John Cage, Luciano Berio and Knud Victor.