Animation is booming and cross-over products are everywhere. New digital animation technologies are becoming increasingly accessible and are used by countless visual artists. Since the first animation experiments in the early twentieth century, animation and the visual arts have engaged in an intensive exchange. This programme consists of films by Dutch artists and filmmakers active in the border region between visual art and animation from the 1950s to the early 1990s, when the technology was almost exclusively analogue. The programme emerged from the Filmmuseum’s recent comprehensive restoration of experimental films.

The programme includes lesser- and better-known films from this border region between film and visual art. It is not narrative, but rather material and technique that forms the basis of these films.

Curated by Simona Monizza & Mette Peters.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2008

Showing in this program

Between the Lights

• Karin Wiertz / Jacques Verbeek
• The Netherlands, 1975
• 9 min.

Don’t Forget

• Matthijs Blonk
• The Netherlands, 1978
• 5 min.

Freem

• Karel Schmeink
• The Netherlands, 1966
• 14 min.

In Need of Space

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

Life & Death

• Joost Roelofsz / Delphine de Pury / Rogier Proper
• The Netherlands, 1979
• 7 min.

Re-action in A

• Noud Heerkens
• The Netherlands, 1978
• 5 min.

Regen

• Christine Koenigs
• The Netherlands, 1977
• 6 min.

Touring Holland by Bicycle

• Jerry Musser / Paul de Nooijer
• The Netherlands, 1981
• 2 min.

A group runs round the table faster and faster in a small room.

Zero-One

• Edward Luyken
• The Netherlands, 1978
• 5 min.