The great magician – Frans Zwartjes
Frans Zwartjes (Alkmaar, 1927) is a film maker, musician, violin builder, draughtsman, painter and sculptor. In the late sixties he caused a furore with artistic, black-and-white films in which heavily made-up and over-dressed actors are caught in a web of sexually loaded power games; hysteria, psychosis and cruelty are among his standard themes. The oeuvre...