Frans van de Staak

A bus driver on a regular route in the 'polder' moves into a new house with his wife. They are the first inhabitants of a new estate. At the same...

Like in his short Ten poems of Hubert Kzn Poot (1975) there is just one protagonist in Sepio. A woman is immersed within a landscape in summertime...

An actress and an actor overhear parts of the play "Three Travelers Watch Sunrise" by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). The dialogues of the three...

An actress and an actor overhear parts of the play "Three Travelers Watch Sunrise" by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). The dialogues of the three...

A portrait of a woman and 26 witnesses who appear to be accusing her of something but we'll never know what. We'll never even know who she is and who...

A portrait of a woman and 26 witnesses who appear to be accusing her of something but we'll never know what. We'll never even know who she is and who...

La terra in due means the earth of the landlords versus that of the peasants who actually cultivate it. This film uses evocative photogrphy and a...

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

Frans van de Staak, Holland's most prominent avant-garde director, made this film "...about people who want to get something done. I leave out the...

Like in his short Ten poems of Hubert Kzn Poot (1975) there is just one protagonist in Sepio. A woman is immersed within a landscape in summertime...

From Spinoza's Ethica 82 sentences were selected without a strict coherence and re-assembled in seven components. Each component was filmed four...

An actress and an actor overhear parts of the play "Three Travelers Watch Sunrise" by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). The dialogues of the three...

The protagonist in the film is an actor (René van het Hof) who is acting his life. He is a nuisance, but only for those who have had enough of...

The film is adapted from a play by Cyrille Offermans Lichtenberg, scenes at the dawn of a new era". Although the protagonist shares some features...

The Dutch writer Hendrik Cramer (1844-1944) lived and worked in Paris when he published (1933) a screenplay for a documentary Un pied cassé,...

This film is Frans van de Staak's first full feature, for which he wrote 28 scenes and worked with a cast of 29 actors and 29 actresses. Each scene...

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...

Amsterdam 1975. Images of "Keizerrijk", a narrow passage [alley] in the center of the city, nearby the Bungehuis. (Wim Schlebaum)

The film consists of 43 scenes which are fragments and do not tell a story but may be compared to musical intermezzi - they give the impression that...

Jacq Vogelaar and Frans van de Staak cooperated in a sort of struggle between language and film: their perspectives are different, even exclusive....

Ten poems from Hubert Korneliszoon Poot from the Dutch farmer and poet Hubert Poot, who lived in the 18th century -declared by Donald de Marcas...

Every scene of the film comprises a dialogue between a man and a woman. The dialogues are fragmentary, in other words, the dialogue in one scene does...

Constructed around two poems by Gerrit Kouwenaar, who reads his own verse off- screen. The film focuses on a man and woman packing, going away,...

Talk to the landscape; texts from Friedrich Griese (Wim Schlebaum)

A girl visits a place where a boy and another girl stay for a while. Afterwards they all leave. The film was shot in a period of two weeks, with one...

Seven persons, who didn't go to work, stayed together all day long while looking for a gift to surprise their boss. (Wim Schlebaum)

A concrete poem of words, sounds and images. (Wim Schlebaum)

Political texts from the journal In Search, edited by M.S. Arnoni (Wim Schlebaum)

Four persons travel by rail to visit a city. On arrival they take a bicycle to continue their tour and join occasionally a passing protest...

A story by Alphonse Daudet about a hunting-scene seen through the eyes of a partridge. (Wim Schlebaum)

The painter Frank Lodeizen filmed at work and in his surroundings.

A film by Frans van de Staak.

Frans van de Staak, Holland's most prominent avant-garde director, made this film "...about people who want to get something done. I leave out the...

Every scene of the film comprises a dialogue between a man and a woman. The dialogues are fragmentary, in other words, the dialogue in one scene does...

The protagonist in the film is an actor (René van het Hof) who is acting his life. He is a nuisance, but only for those who have had enough of...

The protagonist in the film is an actor (René van het Hof) who is acting his life. He is a nuisance, but only for those who have had enough of...

The protagonist in the film is an actor (René van het Hof) who is acting his life. He is a nuisance, but only for those who have had enough of...