Nico Crama: Guest of Honour 1

65 minutes
Nico Crama: Guest of Honour 1

The guest of honour this year is filmmaker and producer Nico Crama. This film programme contains a selection of more than forty films. He is also active as guest programmer and will be showing a number of bis personal favourites. This retrospective is a collaboration between the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, the Netherlands Film Festival and the HAFF.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2004

Showing in this program

Daumier, Eye-witness of an Epoch

Daumier, Eye-witness of an Epoch

  • Nico Crama
  • The Netherlands, 1971
  • 10 min.

In the illustrations of Honoré Daumier for republican reviews, he sketched the 'great' and the 'little' men, as well as the important events of 1832-1872. It was a period when France, like the rest of Europe, was in a flux.

Fotoportret

Fotoportret

  • Nico Crama
  • The Netherlands, 1970
  • 11 min.

Chronological summary of portrait photography from 1840 to the 1970s, including examples of the static portraits of the early days as well as modern pop photos.

Netsuke

Netsuke

  • Nico Crama
  • The Netherlands, 1961
  • 12 min.

Many imaginative, ingenious and beautiful exemples of netsuke, a Japanese toggle and highly-developed folk art. With fascinating details of the delicately carved objects.

Piet Mondriaan

Piet Mondriaan

  • Nico Crama
  • The Netherlands, 1973
  • 18 min.

About fifty paintings and drawings trace the development of Mondrian from naturalism, through cubism, to pure abstraction. Photos and documents evoke an image of the way he worked.

The Characters

The Characters

  • Evert de Beijer
  • The Netherlands, 1986
  • 7 min.

De Beijer's first professional production, The Characters, was elected by the Dutch animated film community as the best Dutch animated film of the 20th century. It shows an amorous but jealous couple that is confronted with graphic symbols and letter-forms which have come to life.

The Museum

The Museum

  • Raf Croonen
  • The Netherlands, 1987
  • 4 min.

A man picks up a stone from some ruins. He takes the stone to a museum. In time this museum falls into ruins from which someone picks up a stone..

Uncles & Aunts II

Uncles & Aunts II

  • Michaela Pavlátová
  • The Netherlands, 1992
  • 3 min.

The second snapshot of family life in Paul Driessen's series. Driessen didn't direct the short himself, but let his good Czech friend and animator Michaela Pavlátová take the helm.