Bert Haanstra Movies

Impressive, abstract dance film from Bert Haanstra.

Bert Haanstra paints a portrait of The Netherlands and the Dutch, in his own unparalleled manner. Partly with the aid of a hidden camera he observes...

Dutch sculpture in the late Middle Ages.

Documentary on the first stage in oil exploration: the first drill.

Bert Haanstra was commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a short film about his own country. It had to be a piece of the work that...

In Rembrandt, Haanstra shows that it is possible to make a fascinating film only with images from paintings. He had to travel though all over Europe...

In this film Bert Haanstra shows how important the formation of national parks is for the protection of nature.

Myrte and the Demons is a hallucinatory trip through a world shot in chiaroscuro in which lugubrious forest spirits take human forms at night. Myrte,...

How the location and size of an oil field is measured. With animated explanations.

Documentary on oil exploration, the phase before drilling.

Documentary on the genesis of oil in the Earth's crust.

Short film in which Dutch author Simon Carmiggelt visits the hairdresser.

Bert Haanstra's first film.

Short poetic documentary about the southern sea in the Netherlands.