Exotic Bird Ode
Frans Zwartjes' erotic experimental film from the late Sixties
20 Feb 2012
Birds (1968) a film by Frans Zwartjes. Filmed in the Netherlands. Black and white, 16mm, 5mins.
In Birds (1968), the dutch artist FRANS ZWARTJES creates a trance-like eroticism. Born in 1927, Zwartjes was the son to an errant nun and a local amateur boxing champion. Also a painter and musician, Zwartjes notes the influence of Andy Warhol’s voyeuristic and disengaged camera gaze in his work. Zwartjes takes this somewhere else, going on to create a series of non-linear, experimental films without dialogue revealing a wandering mobility of vision.
Text Sophie Pinchetti
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