Barbara Meter Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

A short film with shots of sculptures by Anneke Walvoort. The materiality of film plays an important role: visible grain, flashes of colour,...

The dutchified Hungarian Joszef Katús returns, after a months-long absence, to Amsterdam on 29 April 1966. The arrival of the Provos changed a...

Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain,...

A man and a woman converse wordlessly. An essential film dialogue. The accompanying sound was created by playing a chord from a Mahler symphony...

“Convalescing, when you don't have to participate in the world. Time to read, to dream, to look - the blue, the light of the television, the...

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...

Part of the Zuiver Film collection.

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...

After eight years of feminist activism, ANDANTE MA NON TROPPO was Meters’ first step back towards experimental film. The camera observes a...

Barbara Meter's first experimental film. From outside, the handheld camera surreptitiously peers at life in the living rooms of nocturnal Amsterdam....

Photos and film footage are edited, damaged, scratched, and painted. The original images are only vaguely recognizable, as if they are already part...

A Young man is interested in the girl next door, but also discovers that he is not insensitive to a boy, with whom he has dress-up parties in the...

A rhythmical montage made from old photographs and films in which past and present merge.

Part of the Zuiver Film collection.

The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The unknown...