Movies: Bert Haanstra

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

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 mainly would be shown abroad, so that the rest of the world could make acquaintance with the beautiful...

In 1952, Haanstra made Panta Rhei , another view of Holland through the eyes of a painter and filmmaker. Its poetic images of water, skies and clouds reflect Haanstra's own moods....

The film is a study of the differences and similarities between human and animal behaviour. The first part of the movie focuses on the behaviour of various animal species. The second half is about humans. In the original Dutch version writer Anton Ko...

Short poetic documentary about the southern sea in the Netherlands....

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

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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, symbol of good, enters into battle with evil, aided by a colorful group of fantasy creatures, includ...

Bert Haanstra's first film....

Impressive, abstract dance film from Bert Haanstra....

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

The glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam commissioned Bert Haanstra to make film about glass manufacturing. The entire process can be seen: the delivery of raw materials, the designing, glass making and glass blowing, the wide range of splendid pr...

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

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Documentary on oil exploration, the phase before drilling....

Highlights of the Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps on June 5th, 1955....

Dutch sculpture in the late Middle Ages....

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