Nico Crama: Personal Choice

80 minutes
Nico Crama: Personal Choice

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

Famous Paintings

Famous Paintings

  • Maarten Koopman
  • The Netherlands, 1996
  • 17 min.

Twelve famous painting by Pieter Breughel, Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Claude Monet, Piet Mondriaan, Johannes Vermeer, The Apple, James Ensor, Francis Goya, Hieronymus Bosch, René Magritte, Rembrandt.

Goldframe

Goldframe

  • Raoul Servais
  • Belgium, 1969
  • 4 min.

Jason Goldframe, film producer, is always the best and the first. Driven by his obsession to achieve, he even wants to outrun his own shadow. One night he succeeds.

Le Petit Soldat

Le Petit Soldat

  • Paul Grimault
  • France, 1947
  • 11 min.

To the fairy tale of Hans Christian Anderson. A dancer in a music box, wooden toys and a tin soldier come to life at night. They are happy together, but a terrible danger threatens.

Mosaic

Mosaic

  • Norman McLaren / Evelyn Lambart
  • Canada, 1965
  • 7 min.

A single little square splits up into pieces up to a colourful mosaic.

Satiemania

Satiemania

  • Zdenko Gasparovic
  • Croatia, 1978
  • 16 min.

The jungle of the supermarket, the bedlam of brothels, bars and more. On music by Eric Satie, as seen by the eye of the animator.

Tango

Tango

  • Zbigniew Rybczynski
  • Poland, 1980
  • 8 min.

The winner of the very first Oscar in the history of Polish cinema, Tango is a metaphor for human fate in which repetitious every day acts and a growing number of people become a meaningful choreography. 

The History of Cinema

The History of Cinema

  • John Halas
  • United Kingdom, 1957
  • 6 min.

A hilarious blend of fact and fiction about hundred years of screen history.

The Street

The Street

  • Caroline Leaf
  • Canada, 1976
  • 10 min.

Intimate portrait of a Jewish family responding to the passing away of their beloved grandmother.