His was a career that most film directors would envy. But some chose to define Dutch maestro Bert Haanstra’s career as ‘ridiculously successful’. Born on May 31, 1961 into a family with an inclination ...

The Netherlands and water, they are inseparable from one another. Water in its soothing form, as a place of work and pleasure and as a source of threat and misery. Bert Haanstra thought it a great ...

Tasmai, a centre for art and culture will present selected documentaries of legendary film-maker Bert Haanstra at 6pm on August 28 on the centre premises in Kuruchikuppam. PUDUCHERRY: Tasmai, a centre ...

Still from “Glas” by Bert Haanstra (1958) (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic) Set to jazz music, the wordless film contrasts the artful, improvisational process of traditional handmade ...

Bert Haanstra’s Glas is a short 10-minute documentary from 1958 about glass that won an Oscar. It’s a beautiful short that shows the art of glass blowing versus the character-less mechanism of ...

This is Glas, a 1959 Oscar-winning short subject documentary by Bert Haanstra about glass making, and it is the most mesmerizing thing you’ll see today. The film is notable for a number of reasons, ...

It's a filthy job getting to the top, but someone's got to do it.

Still from "A monument for a gorrila" by Bert Haanstra. In one of the documentaries that Dutch film-maker Bert Haanstra filmed in Burgers’ Dierenpark some twenty years ago, there is a sequence in ...

AMSTERDAM — Helmer Paul Verhoeven has won the Dutch Film Fund’s fourth Bert Haanstra Oeuvre Prize — at E45,000 ($57,240), Holland’s biggest cash prize for film. A jury — former vice premiere Hans van ...

The event is cosponsored by the Sureh University and the Netherlands Embassy in Tehran. “This is the first time that an Iranian university and an embassy in Tehran cooperate for holding a film week to ...