Movies: Kees Hin

A perfect, fast and hilarious montage. Using images from Artis (Amsterdam Zoo), Bert Haanstra shows that a couple of similarities can be discovered between human and animal. Particularly the manner in which human and ape are confronted with each othe...

Personal document in which celebrated film veteran Kees Hin is portrayed in the final phase of life by his former apprentice and good friend Diego Gutiérrez. Their collaboration results in this compilation of seven short films, in which Gutiérrez inv...

The importance of the Atelier as a meeting and working-place for independent or beginning filmmakers is highlighted in Last days of Studio Frans van de Staak a necrology of his films by Kees Hin (2002), which focuses mainly on Van de Staak's non-natu...

During the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2002, Leo Hannewijk (festival director Film by the Sea) approached filmmaker and producer Digna Sinke with the idea of asking several film makers to make short films based on poems about the provinc...

When Laura was six, her parents got divorced and her father disappeared from her life. The happiness she experienced on her final journey with her father, when he danced with her at a flea market in Brussels, holds a special place in Laura's memory. ...

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A short documentary film by Kees Hin about the late dutch filmmaker Frans van de Staak....

In a Dutch village, an eighty-year-old widow is murdered. The perverted modus operandi turns the crime into a national media event. It made the authorities decide to set up one of the first large-scale DNA investigations in the country. The men who w...

He was always busy making the absolute painting, one of Jaap Hillenius' sons says about his father. The artist who was killed in a car accident in 1999 steadily built, averse to conventions and trends, an autonomous oeuvre, indefatigably looking for ...

After a stroke, the Amsterdam artist Aat Veldhoen is not able to use his right drawing hand anymore. Because of his natural urge to draw he starts using his left hand to depict the people around him during rehabilitation. His wife, the feminist and p...

The Sensitive Plate consists of 1250 filmed black-and-white photo portraits made between 1913-1969 by the Amsterdam photo studio Merkelbach, ran by father and daughter Jakobus and Mies Merkelbach. The sequence of faces is interrupted only by the year...

Kees Hin’s acclaimed depiction of Berlin in the 1930s. On the basis of recollections recorded on video, Kees Hin and K. Schippers created a ‘theatre of memory’ where former residents of Berlin look back on the downfall of that bustling metropolis and...

Third part of a triptych by filmmaker Kees Hin about the late Frans van de Staak....

Residents of the same street in Haarlem, and acquaintances and relatives of Kees Hin, together tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood, each in fifteen words....

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