Dutch Classics I: Musical Encounters

90 minutes
Dutch Classics I: Musical Encounters

A musical tour through the melodious history of Dutch animation.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2019

Showing in this program

A Single Life

A Single Life

  • Job / Joris & Marieke
  • The Netherlands, 2014
  • 2 min.

When Pia puts on a mysterious vinyl single, she's suddenly able to travel through her own life.

Barcode

Barcode

  • Adriaan Lokman
  • The Netherlands, 2001
  • 8 min.

A road movie through an abstract and virtual world.

Brainwash

Brainwash

  • Ronald Bijlsma
  • The Netherlands, 1973
  • 9 min.
Dreamland

Dreamland

  • Henk Kabos
  • The Netherlands, 1949
  • 3 min.
In Need of Space

In Need of Space

  • Bart Vegter
  • The Netherlands, 1982
  • 5 min.
Jazzimation

Jazzimation

  • Oerd van Cuijlenborg
  • The Netherlands, 1999
  • 4 min.

A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes.

Pas a Deux

Pas a Deux

  • Monique Renault / Gerrit van Dijk
  • The Netherlands, 1988
  • 5 min.

The 1989 Golden Bear-winner by Monique Renault and Gerrit van Dijk, in which the appearance of two dance partners changes constantly. Countless historical figures and icons twirl by. Tarzan dances with Snow White, the Pope dances with Joan of Arc etc.. Van Dijk drew the female figures, Renault the male ones. 

Piccolo, Saxo and Company

Piccolo, Saxo and Company

  • Jan Coolen
  • The Netherlands, 1960
  • 13 min.

An animation for Philips in which a musical family of string instruments goes out to meet new friends. On their way they meet other instruments such as the family of the woodwinds, saxophones and percussion instruments. In the end they all make music together and a symphony is born!

RERUNS

RERUNS

  • Rosto
  • The Netherlands / France / Belgium, 2018
  • 14 min.

Everything’s different but nothing has changed. A trip through a sunken maze of memories and dreams.

The Case of the Spiral Staircase

The Case of the Spiral Staircase

  • Karin Wiertz / Jacques Verbeek
  • The Netherlands, 1981
  • 2 min.

A woman goes down an endless and increasingly abstract spiral stairway.

The Philips Broadcast 1938

The Philips Broadcast 1938

  • George Pal
  • The Netherlands, 1937
  • 4 min.