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2014, digibeta, b/w & color, 12 min.
A cypress on a road near the village of Wassenaar, hacked in the sixties. Its meaning for those who lived there.
2012, DCP, 35 mm, b/w & color, 80 min.
The discovery of the world in the 60’s, seen through the eyes of Louis van Gasteren and his little daughter. It is a vital and open world, with the urge to experiment: participation and observation.
2011, digibeta, colour, 75 min.
A sequel to the film A New Village on New Land (1960). Van Gasteren revisits Nagele to see how its unique architecture and its socio-economic situation has changed in the course of the last fifty years. Many changes are comparable to other small communities all over the world
2009, digibeta, colour, 80 min.
A film about Sicco Mansholt (1908-1995). Using unique visual material including footage from the archives of the Mansholt family and interviews that Van Gasteren held with family and friends, the film provides a portrait of a committed man.
2008, digibeta, colour, 21 min.
To mark the hundred anniversary of the birth of Sicco Mansholt, an exhibition was organised in the Veenkoloniaal Museum in Scheemda. Louis van Gasteren made a short film for this exhibition.
2006, digibeta, color, 90 min.
Short version of the film, aired by national
television.
2005, digibeta color, 4 x 50 min.
Series of
four films on 14 inhabitants of Roermond, executed by the Germans on
December 26th, 1944.
2003,digibeta, color, 56 min.
A follow up
of the film NOW DO YOU GET IT WHY I AM CRYING, made in 1969, related tot the
children of the survivors of the second World War, premiere September 2003. Golden Calf
for the best (short) documentary, Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht, 2003,
selected by the Berlinale (Forum).
2002, 35
mm., color, 85 min.
Film on the role of the Dutch
hydraulic engineers in the Meiji era in Japan.
1997, 35 mm.
color, 30 min.
Interview
with Meher Baba, filmed in
Meherabad in 1967.
1995,
Betacam SP, color, 15 min.
Short film
on the sounds of Holland, the sound of dry feet!
1994,
Betacam SP, color, 30 min.
An experiment with mobile pigeon lofts,
registered at the campus of the University of Utrecht.
1989, 16 mm. Betacam SP, color, 56 min.
1000 years of Dutch water management and hydro
civil engineering. Gold Camera Award (Chicago), Sony Video Award (Amsterdam),
Amsterdam Film Award, Special Commendation Prix Futura (Berlin).
1988, 16
mm, color, 45 min.
Film on the
realisation of the ‘NAP-project’ in the Townhall/Musictheatre, Amsterdam, for
WDR-television, Germany.
1985, 16
mm. color, 15 mm.
An
archaeological survey in the cave of Corbeddu with remarkable results.
1984, 16
mm. color, 30 min
Documentary
on the music composed by Hans van Sweeden, performed by Vera Beths, Dorothy
Dorow, Ary Jongman and Ton Hartsuiker.
1983, 16
mm. b/w & color, 150 min.
Three
documentaries on the Amsterdam ‘scene’ 1955-1965, each 55 min.
1983, 35 mm, b/w & color, 155 min.
A
documentary/feature on the life of the young composer Hans van Sweeden and
those who knew him intimately. Award for the best Dutch film in 1983. Award of
the Dutch film critics, 1983; the Belgian film critics Award, 1984; Best Dutch
Documentary 1980-1990.
1982, 16
mm. color, 28 min.
Documentary
on the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum, made for WDR.
1980, 16
mm. color, 10 min.
The opening of the art work of the English
artist John Wilks.
1979, 16
mm. b/w, 22 min.
Bart Huges
motivates the drilling of a hole in his skull, shot in 1964.
1979, 16
mm. b/w, 15 min
The first
happening of Amsterdam (1962), filmed by Jan Vrijman, with commentary of the
participants (1979).
1978, 16 mm, b/w,
5 min.
Porno,
based upon archive material from 1920.
1978, 16 mm,
color, 15 min.
The third
in the series on perception and interpretation.
1976-1979,
16 mm. color, each 50 min.
Series,
made for the WDR, based upon the films about Sardinia.
1977, 16 mm
color, 56 min.
Myths and science; the third documentary on Sardinia.
1976, 16
mm. color, 52 min.
Sardinia’s history and culture, the second film
in the Sardinia-series.
1975, 16
mm. color, 13 min.
The second film on perception and
interpretation.
1975, 16 mm
color, 72 min.
The first of a series on the island of
Sardinia. Can the outlaw Corbeddu be considered as Sardinia’s Robin Hood?
1974, 16
mm, color, 58 min.
Documentary on the role of multinational
enterprises.
1974-1972,
16 mm, color, 5 x 30 min.
Series on
Europe, made for the Dutch TV program E72, E73, E74.
1973, 16
mm, color, 13 min.
A
portrait of a French peasant woman.
1972, 16
mm, b/w, 10 min.
The
counterpoints of European welfare: pollution and the discrimination of the
third world.
1972, 16
mm, color, 45 min.
Film
about the EC, focused on what the European population thinks about the European
Community.
1971, 16
mm, color, 4.x 15 min.
Portraits
of these four philosophers for the International Philosophers Project.
1971, 16
mm, color, 27 min.
Report of the trial against the mercenary Rolf
Steiner.
1971, 16
mm, color, 45 min.
First of
two documentaries on the unification of various European countries into the
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (Mansholt Plan, language problems).
1971, 16 mm, b/w,
12 min.
Film about European agrarian politics.
1970, 16
mm, color, 7 min.
Film about
the art work of Theo Botschuyver, that allows you to walk on water.
1969, 16
mm, b/w, 62 min.
A therapeutic LSD-session with a former inmate
of a German concentration camp.
1968, 16
mm, color, 50 min.
A
documentary on the Biafran war. State-Award for Film 1969.
1967, 16
mm, b/w, 9 min.
The First
film in the series on perception and interpretation.
1966, b/w,
11 min.
Filmed at the opening of a
Provo photo exhibition in 1966. The police felt provocated and reacted
unexpectedly violent. The film was prohibited by the Dutch Committee for Film
Censorship.
1965, 16
mm, color & b/w, 15 min.
An
experimental film, shot in the USA.
1964, 16
mm, b/w, 14 min.
The poet Ted Joans reads his poetry with jazz
musicians Piet Kuiters, Ruud Jacobs, Cees See and Herman Schoonderwalt.
1964, 16
mm. b/w, 56 min.
The
new town hall of Marl (Germany), designed by the Dutch architects Van den Broek
and Bakema.
1964, 35
mm, b/w, 46 min.
A
documentary on the Dutch telephone system.
1963, 16 mm, b/w,
20 min.
Documentary
on the rescue work at sea, the successes and the failures.
1962, 35 mm, b/w,
26 min.
The installation of the last automated
telephone system, fiction and documentary, focusing on the moment the system
starts working.
1961, 35
mm, b/w, 32 min.
A fiction film, dealing with a house that is
simultaneously built and destroyed. No dialogue. Several awards in Europe and
the U.S.
1961, 35
mm, b/w, 25 min.
Documentary on the system-building as a result
of the post-war housing shortage.
1960, 35
mm, b/w, 25 min.
A documentary on the
planning, building and first pioneers of the village NAGELE in the new
IJsselmeerpolder.
1960, 35
mm, b/w, 90 min.
A thriller, shot on location on a wrecked ship.
1955, 35
mm, b/w, 4 min.
Science fiction commercial for Albert Heijn.
1964, 35
mm, b/w, 15 min.
A documentary on the
night-time renewal of tramway rails in Amsterdam
1953, 16
mm, b/w, 10 min.
Impression
of the transportation of bags of cocoa with little boats to the coasters in the
mooring of Ghana harbour.
1953, 16
mm, b/w, 45 min.
Report
of the adventurous trip by car from Amsterdam to the present Ghana..
1952, 35
mm, b/w, 90 min.
A documentary on
cocoa and chocolate; shot on location in Ghana and The Netherlands.