Barbara Meter Movies

  • 1966
    De minder gelukkige terugkeer van Joszef Katus naar het land van Rembrandt

    De minder gelukkige terugkeer van Joszef Katus naar het land van Rembrandt

    De minder gelukkige terugkeer van Joszef Katus naar het land van Rembrandt

    01966HD

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

    De minder gelukkige terugkeer van Joszef Katus naar het land van Rembrandt
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 2015
    Up to the Sky and Much Much More

    Up to the Sky and Much Much More

    Up to the Sky and Much Much More

    02015HD

    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...

    Up to the Sky and Much Much More
  • 2011
    Little Stabs

    Little Stabs

    Little Stabs

    02011HD

    A film by Barbara Meter

    Little Stabs
  • 1995
    Sculptures for a Windless Space

    Sculptures for a Windless Space

    Sculptures for a Windless Space

    21995HD

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

    Sculptures for a Windless Space
  • 1970
    Songs for Four Hands

    Songs for Four Hands

    Songs for Four Hands

    01970HD

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

    Songs for Four Hands
  • 1972
    Portraits

    Portraits

    Portraits

    01972HD

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

    Portraits
  • 2005
    Ariadne

    Ariadne

    Ariadne

    02005HD

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

    Ariadne
  • 1967
    Schermerhoorn

    Schermerhoorn

    Schermerhoorn

    01967HD

    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...

    Schermerhoorn
  • 2000
    Appearances

    Appearances

    Appearances

    02000HD

    An image of early twentieth century Germany rises from a collage of family photographs and landscapes. Meter used the photo albums of her parents,...

    Appearances
  • 2003
    Quay

    Quay

    Quay

    02003HD

    Part of the Zuiver Film collection.

    Quay
  • 1970
    From the Exterior

    From the Exterior

    From the Exterior

    01970HD

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

    From the Exterior
  • 1965
    IJdijk

    IJdijk

    IJdijk

    01965HD

    a man with a moped and groups of boys (one in particular) are in conflict, which sometimes turns into erotic play.

    IJdijk
  • 2005
    Stretto

    Stretto

    Stretto

    02005HD

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

    Stretto
  • 2008
    A Touch

    A Touch

    A Touch

    5.52008HD

    A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind. Fog and mist, shadows of people...

    A Touch
  • 2000
    Convalescing

    Convalescing

    Convalescing

    02000HD

    “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...

    Convalescing
  • 1994
    Penelope

    Penelope

    Penelope

    01994HD

    Part of the Zuiver Film collection.

    Penelope
  • 2022
    Nachtlicht

    Nachtlicht

    Nachtlicht

    02022HD

    Nachtlicht
  • 2003
    Offices

    Offices

    Offices

    02003HD

    Short film by Barbara Meter.

    Offices
  • 2009
    Loutron

    Loutron

    Loutron

    02009HD

    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...

    Loutron