>index\ filmography\ notes from the Underground 16mm, 1:1.66, black and white, comopt, 30 minutes.

Group portrait of five Dutch independent film makers who make wayward and valuable films. The film consists of a relay race of studio visits: Cyrus Frisch, Karel Doing, Frans Zwartjes, Jean Pierre Sens and Victor Nieuwenhuys and Maartje Seyferth pass on the Bolex to each other.

We follow Cyrus Frisch shooting a scene in the Amsterdam red light district for his feature 'Forgive me'. He explains his unusual method of directing. Frisch visits Karel Doing at his super 8 studio in Rotterdam. Doing has just finished his film 'Maas Observation'. The godfather of Dutch experimental movie making, Frans Zwartjes, is being filmed by Karel Doing. Doing develops his film on the spot in Zwartjes' bathtub. Zwartjes visits his former pupil Jean Pierre Sens. Sens makes himself familiar with the camera movement of Zwartjes' early 1970 film 'Living'. Jean Pierre Sens visits Victor Nieuwenhuys and Maartje Seyferth in their Gothic studio. They talk about their new project 'Lulu' and the recurrent role of sexuality in their work.
karel doing developing super8 film

The pleasure of film making emerges as an underlying theme of the film. We have tried to capture this pleasure in a non obtrusive way, highlighting the film makers' methods of working more than the contents of their work.

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