Barbara Meter Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain,...

A man and a woman converse wordlessly. An essential film dialogue. The accompanying sound was created by playing a chord from a Mahler symphony...

The dutchified Hungarian Joszef Katús returns, after a months-long absence, to Amsterdam on 29 April 1966. The arrival of the Provos changed a...

A short film with shots of sculptures by Anneke Walvoort. The materiality of film plays an important role: visible grain, flashes of colour,...

The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The unknown...

A Young man is interested in the girl next door, but also discovers that he is not insensitive to a boy, with whom he has dress-up parties in the...

A film by Barbara Meter

“Convalescing, when you don't have to participate in the world. Time to read, to dream, to look - the blue, the light of the television, the...

A man and a woman sit in front of a window and eat breakfast. Through the window, we see the countryside. During the day, they remain seated at the...

Often the images are held for awhile and then left to themselves - only to fade out just as they begin to move. For me this enhances the feeling of...

Short film by Barbara Meter.

A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind. Fog and mist, shadows of people...

Part of the Zuiver Film collection.

In her recent film Up to the Sky and Much Much More, Meter uses letters sent to her by her father during World War II to provide the film's...

The film has elements of documentary, narrative and avant-garde. In a big house a party is taking place. People arrive and greet each...

An image of early twentieth century Germany rises from a collage of family photographs and landscapes. Meter used the photo albums of her parents,...