Barbara Meter Movies

A rhythmical montage made from old photographs and films in which past and present merge.

Part of the Zuiver Film collection.

A very impressive film is Barbara Meter's 'Distance to Nearby.' The film is a dramatic reconstruction of memory. The memory of the alienation and...

People embarking on a small boat - the bustle and confusion of it. A walk and a song. A villiage square, men with coffee, women with children, and...

A film by Barbara Meter

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 attempt to communicate the feeling of evaporation, of disappearing and slipping away of the fragile material which is called time.

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

Barbara Meter's first experimental film. From outside, the handheld camera surreptitiously peers at life in the living rooms of nocturnal Amsterdam....

Photos and film footage are edited, damaged, scratched, and painted. The original images are only vaguely recognizable, as if they are already part...

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...

“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...