Barbara Meter Movies

In her recent film Up to the Sky and Much Much More, Meter uses letters sent to her by her father during World War II to provide the film's...

The film has elements of documentary, narrative and avant-garde. In a big house a party is taking place. People arrive and greet each...

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...

An image of early twentieth century Germany rises from a collage of family photographs and landscapes. Meter used the photo albums of her parents,...

A rhythmical montage made from old photographs and films in which past and present merge.

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...

Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain,...

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...

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

A very impressive film is Barbara Meter's 'Distance to Nearby.' The film is a dramatic reconstruction of memory. The memory of the alienation and...

Often the images are held for awhile and then left to themselves - only to fade out just as they begin to move. For me this enhances the feeling of...

Barbara Meter's first experimental film. From outside, the handheld camera surreptitiously peers at life in the living rooms of nocturnal Amsterdam....

Photos and film footage are edited, damaged, scratched, and painted. The original images are only vaguely recognizable, as if they are already part...