Cinematography: Barbara Meter

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The unknown woman could be Gretchen from Faust, hopelessly in...

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot The voice of a woman, who we never get to see, talks to an invisible man about the frustrations of their lack of understanding.

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind. Fog and mist, shadows of people in the city and by the water......

Direction Barbara Meter

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot Faces pass by in - initially-quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'Structuralist' inspired film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain, scratches and flickering give the film...

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot Barbara Meter's first experimental film. From outside, the handheld camera surreptitiously peers at life in the living rooms of nocturnal Amsterdam. Shots of lamp shades, plants, chairs, faces and pets....

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot "Convalescing, when you don't have to participate in the world. Time to read, to dream, to look - the blue, the light of the television, the blue, the book, the...

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot A man and a woman converse wordlessly. An essential film dialogue. The accompanying sound was created by playing a chord from a Mahler symphony through two 'reel-to-reel' tape recorders and...

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot The magic of ships when they dock, the expectation on the quays, the exciting theatre of the people with and without their vehicles, the hello’s and goodbye’s are typical of...

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot Edited in the camera on 8mm, this film is built from newspaper photos which I had assembled for years.

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot People embarking on a small boat - the bustle and confusion of it. A walk and a song. A villiage square, men with coffee, women with children, and old man...

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot The film has elements of documentary, narrative and avant-garde. In a big house a party is taking place. People arrive and greet each other-encounters, some dancing, flirtations, a moment of...

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot Meter uses letters sent to her by her father during World War II to provide the film’s narration, while interviews with her mother expand on his opposition to fascism —...

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot An attempt to communicate the feeling of evaporation, of disappearing and slipping away of the fragile material which is called time.

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot «This film is made as a pastiche on the cards one sends to family at home, while on holiday. Most participants were my friends those days. Some are not alive...

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot A man and a woman sit in front of a window and eat breakfast. Through the window, we see the countryside. During the day, they remain seated at the table....

Direction Barbara Meter

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot They can be seen in the whole of Greece: the small and humble buildings along the roadside dedicated to a saint. Often a burning candle illuminates the colourful interior. Most...

Direction Barbara Meter

Plot The film is a dramatic reconstruction of memory. The memory of the alienation and solitude of a (half) Jewish child -the filmmaker- while in hiding, dramatized in restrained but touching...

Direction Barbara Meter