Moniek Toebosch Movies

Hes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed s...

Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space by usi...

The actual life and the fiction created by a successful pulp author begin to blend together.

De Mantel der Liefde is a bizarre, over the top and at times hilarious settling of scores with the Catholic Church, commercial movie culture and 1970'...

Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between husband...

Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the grass and people at the table. A film from the series...

In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another. "...

"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017),sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the Ameri...

Zwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with his...

An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.

Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like cri...

Two girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. Sexuality is suggested through the weird rhythm of...

An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees.

Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.