Henri Plaat
History
Henri Plaat was born in the Netherlands in 1936. He studied at the Rietveld Academy in the mid-1950s before going on to work as a topographic designer. In the early 1960s, Plaat decided to concentrate on painting and watercolour. In 1966 he started to make short fiction films and travelogues, usually with a small 16-millimeter handheld camera.
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Late era assemblage short film by Henri Plaat.
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Henri Plaat | A Fleeting Dream | 2004 | b/w & color | sound | 10 min.
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Film about a journey made by Henri Plaat through the mountains and deserts of southern Morocco. This film is one of a series of idiosyncratic and candid visual travelogues by Plaat. When filming the landscape, his use of colour and composition reveals Plaat as a painter.
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Other Thoughts is a series of portraits of people linked together by tranquil images - a surreal world that is not strange, but is comprised of fragments of dreams.
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A meditation on death.
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A meditation on death.
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A meditation on death.
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Somewhere in a bombed city: transvestite heads show beautiful ladies hats. We see the latest fashion and hear cheerful music while the war continues.
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From the left-overs of the films Henri Plaat made during his many travels, he made this film as an improvisation on deterioration and decay. A world of time passed and nostalgia.
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On his travels to South-America, Plaat tried to capture the omnipresence of Carlos Cardel, the king of Tango. The film stands out in composition, light and colour in combination with the tango music.
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Realistic images of New York alternate with surrealistic indoor shots and posing fashion models, with references to aphroditism and transvestism.
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A surreal encounter at Père Lachaise cemetery between brightly coloured jelly pudding and Mickey Mouse.
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Landscapes, cities and people pass by in a small pile of postcards.
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Two schoolgirls act as society ladies, evoking an atmosphere of the roaring twenties. A transvestite tries to read while spaghetti descends on his head.
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An absurd short film in which music - a mix of Beethoven symphonies and German poetry - is the starting point. There are also fragments of Real Fine Tea from Berlin.
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In his study a cardinal is surrounded by bizarre props in an atmosphere of decay.
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A ten-year-old girl dressed as a 1920s star gives a performance. She wears a rubber mask, sits in a large, red armchair, and reads magazines that revive actresses from the past. Annette Hanshaw sings in the background. Marlene Dietrich is bombarded with egg, chocolate powder, powdered sugar and currants.
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A veiled Indian lady talks to the camera (silent). Her story is told in images.
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A veiled Indian lady talks to the camera (silent). Her story is told in images.
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In a series of photo collages and coloured static photographs, a portrait of Hitler as a crazy fool. To a soundtrack of cabaret music, the images are edited in an associative sequence and appear to be moving while being saturated in smoke.
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A frightening film in which a boy and an uncle try to outdo each other in terms of perversity, with a giant Côte d’Or toffee. By means of enlargements and reductions in size, which are enhanced in black and white images, the film becomes something of a surreal dream.
