PIETER SWIER

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Present in Absence

• Forgotten Landscapes
  
• Inner Landscape
  
• A Quiet House Near the River
  
• Through a Window
  
• Field Recordings [SERIES] 
  
• Three Landscapes
  
• Diptych
  
• River Views
  
• Garden Book
  
• SEGMENTS
  
• Landscape as Landscape [SERIES]
  
• The Other River
  

The Circle Closes

• [IN-PRODUCTION]

• Inland [IN-PRODUCTION]
  
• The River [IN-PRODUCTION]

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Through a Window
Door een venster

2017 | 4'25" | 8mm | black/white, color | silent

A short sketch and portrait of my parental home and the surrounding garden.

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Credits / Technical specs

Film processing by Frank Bruinsma // Super8 Reversal Lab, Den Haag
Scanning by Onno Petersen
Shot with a Canon 512XL Electronic
Shot on Kodak Tri-X & WittnerChrome 200D
Thanks you Claudio Caldini and my parents.
Available as a Super8 Print / DCP / Digital File

Screenings

* non-syntax Experimental Image Festival ‘Memothod’ exhibition. A retrospective with 10 Films + Physical objects from my library. Taipei, Taiwan (10-20-10 / 2024) * Esker Film Society. Zwolle, Netherlands (13-03 / 2025)
* Esker Film Society in Zwolle, Netherlands (13-03 - 2025)
* 8-Sploitation Cinema. Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, Netherlands (18-04 / 2026)