Holland: Behind Your Walls
“Several themes familiar from Frans Zwartjes' large body of films play dominant roles in this film: an often repressed, sadistic or masochistic sexuality, a grotesquery, and a claustrophobia. These are..built with harsh lighting and closeups.... A gaunt-looking woman, who appears more and more weary, listens against a floral wall, waiting, wanting something to happen. On what is perhaps the other side of the wall, garishly colored sexual montages suggest that lovemaking is filling time.... What is the wait?.... Are these lovers or prostitutes?” Regina Cornwell, notes condensed from program catalogue.
• A film by Frans Zwartjes. (1971, 12 mins, Color)

Holland: Say Goodbye
“Paul de Nooiyer weds his photography to his cinematic work, (here using) Polaroids as an integral part of the composition of his film. A still camera is reflected in a mirror. Seated in front of the mirror, at what appears to be a dressing table, is a man who...puts on and takes off his hat, quickly, over and over, sometimes using it to cover his face.... (On) the soundtrack, crowd noises and cheering...imply that he is performing for an audience beyond the mirror.... (His actions) make the film a totally unsolved and engaging mystery.” R.C.
• A film by Paul de Nooiyer. (1977, 4 mins, Color)

Greece: Ottepa
(Opera)
“‘Were nineteenth century operas to their age what Hollywood superproductions are to ours?' Andreas Velissaropoulos asks.... He describes his film as ‘a surrealist “poorman's superproduction,” full of cultural and historical allusions, contrasting with short glimpses of contemporary reality concerning life and mentalities of young inhabitants of modern Athens.' The sound track uses the music of Beethoven, Bach, Berg, Schoenberg, Richard Strauss and Wagner. Balinese monkey chants, pop culture, symbols of fates, seasons and the elements are interwoven....” R.C.
• A film by Andreas Velissaropoulos. (1976, 38 mins, Color)