Jaap Pieters Movies

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

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

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

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

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...

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...

Jaap Pieters passionately takes photographs and films, mainly on Super8, of the world around him: vagabonds, drunkards, striking incidence of light,...

A furious man with a bottle and can...

Kindergarteners make numerous attempts to lift a pumpkin.

A homeless man in a street-worker’s jacket enthusiastically regulates traffic in De Pijp.

Kim, a dancer, gets a foot massage from Steven, a drummer.

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...

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

A portrait of Jaap's good friend Willem.

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...

This silent film provokes the anger of the man in our heads, the anger we can see but can't hear & at the same time the man tries to acquire...

A partly mirrored single shot of an early morning Toronto street scene on a single reel Tri-X Super 8mm. The film shows us a complex still life,...

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

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.