Netherlands Movies

Two businessmen-turned-leathermen have fun together, beating each other to a pulp.

The film consists of two basic components: the music of Charles Ives, 'The unanswered question', from 1907, and a letter written by an old woman who h...

A self-portrait of the Van der Elsken family, with his heavily pregnant wife Gerda in the lead role. She is expecting their second child, and Van der...

Famous Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken, suffering from prostate cancer, shares his thoughts predominantly on his illness, but also on his life an...

The film consists of 25 scenes. Each scene is performed by eight actors [out of a group of nine]; the ninth actor continually changing places with ano...

Application of double frame technics with two synchronized 16mm projectors. Each frame functions alternately as the [abstract] painter's canvas and as...

A group of expatriates living in Holland turn to sex, dope and music to augment their daily routines. One comes to resent a couple who becomes part of...

A bombardment of fish and other underwater creatures accompanied by music from the Egyptian singer Abdel Basset Hamouda. A hallucinatory trip where vi...

A collage of autobiography, reflections on previous work and the photographer in action. Van der Elsken tells us that he’s working on a photo book abo...

Stylised documentary portrait of the Amsterdam Levantkade area and the 'urban nomads' who in the late eighties sought refuge in this no-man's-land now...