Willem van der Zanden Movies

An experimental docu-fiction short from hours of collected material shot by the director. Different scenes, from drunk parties with friends to shots...

A short documentary concerning a group of friends who get together, eat shawarma and drink beer. They talk utter nonsense at times, yet they couldn't...

A short film recounting the travels of a lonely astronaut confronted by the unknown. Unfolding as a mystery, it becomes a carefully subtle,...

An ambient representation of depression with a slowly fading score building towards an uncertain climax.

A semi-autobiographical short about a young man musing about the nostalgic joy of being a careless child.

A man steadily bashes through the snow. He disappears and the trees, covered in white, shift and show a beautiful array of hidden colors. A poetic,...

A poetic, semi-autobiographical short film of the sun setting over a village, shot from behind the curtains of a small, dimly lit room.

An experimental journey through a year in the life of the director, using his always playing playlist to cross the boundaries of fiction and...

A misty midnight. Music plays in one house, in the other, a man brushes his teeth. More and more sounds are heard yet the darkness hardly reveals...

A short, poetic documentary of an old woman and the loneliness that surrounds her after her husband was sent to a nursing home.

A free-flowing, poetic short film filled with expressionist imagery, old photos and abstract moments, led by a voice-over in which the director tells...

A 90-second short showing a fairytale-like story of an abandoned art academy and the students who once resided there.

Set to be a fictitious film in the vein of A Little Testament where actors are not or rarely seen and only heard through voice-over, recounting the...