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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Albert 'Bert' Haanstra was a Dutch film director of films and documentaries. His documentary Glass (1958) won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. His feature film Fanfare (1958) ...

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 ...

Bert Haanstra was commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a short film about his own country. It had to be a piece of the work that mainly would be shown abroad, so that the rest of ...

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 ...