Movies: Jaap Pieters

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city....

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each...

At Michel's home in Zurich, the shade of flowers dance upon a window curtain....

Kindergarteners make numerous attempts to lift a pumpkin....

Jaap Pieters passionately takes photographs and films, mainly on Super8, of the world around him: vagabonds, drunkards, striking incidence of light, the beauty of decay. In this way he has built up an oeuvre that is appreciated by a small group of f...

A man is trying to put empty cans into his torn coat pockets. There appear to be more and more cans lying on the street....

A visual chain of 'encounters' in which the camera is moved by the movement of the people. A chain-reaction as a domino-row where our eye is forced to follow the next & the next & the next.......

A furious man with a bottle and can......

A portrait of Jaap's good friend Willem....

A fearless young woman cleans the outer windows of an upper floor....

A silver-coloured tarp undulates over a field....

From his bedroom window on the second floor, Pieters films the unloading of meat....

A homeless man tries to keep his daily movements in line and order... The intimacy of a private life on the street, filmed from the inside of a third floor apartment....

A man stands on a sidewalk, holding a model airplane aloft......

While filming a portrait of Dutch filmmaker Jaap Pieters, he evoked memories of a Lebanese friend who had disappeared, and his desire to trace his footsteps / to track him down. This project matched our own desire to learn about the state of Lebanese...

High stacks of cups wobble unsteadily on a running washing machine....

The bottom of the river is dug up then dumped again....

A tree stands at the foot a towering wooden structure in Istanbul....

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A man stands in the middle of the market, playing a stringless ukulele....