Open Studio, Videotop classes, 2000-2001. Made with a lot of the video collective people as well, up north.
This was the final film for my studies at Open Studio Videotop.
Shot in a week, very strict storyboard, a clapper for every shot. Shooting these days is a lot quicker. So is post, because those computers were slow! Again, fun time was had by all.
This deserves a longer post. Maybe I’ll add more detail in the future.
Another oldie. One of my two final student projects at Open Studio in Amsterdam. A bit construed. I basically wanted to go for a Roald Dahl type story. In truth, I just wanted to see a head fly out a fridge, and the soggy eye really had me in stitches when I came up with the visual. Gory really. The rest was just a convoluted structure around that. I was shocked during editing to see what we were doing to the woman in the film, poor thing – kinda dark. I usually go for a lighter mood and this edit has a few comic moments put back in like the kitty and the end after the titles.
Open Studio, Videotop classes, 2000-2001.
Inspired by Sergio Leone. Note the long shots, the sweat and the brim of the fishing hat. Of course the setting is the joke. Write what you know, eh. Not that I had a kitchen as such at the time, but I had a water boiler and a toaster.
It was nominated at a short film festival in Leeuwarden.
Written, directed & cut by Frank Boxman
Camera: Donald Boers
Actor: Dusan Petkovic
Co-editor: Xander de Wit
Clapper/Assistant/Creative Consult: Katrin Schultz
‘Have you been good?’
Sorry, it’s in Dutch. No subs as of yet. Though you’d think I’d have had enough time by now.
Open Studio, Videotop classes, 2000-2001.
A short film about love. Inspired by an endproject from someone at the Amsterdam Filmschool. Ages ago. I think it was by a cameraman. This guy was sitting in the dark at this table and there was a gun. Very nicely lit. Dubious and fraught it seems to me now. Actually, it did then, but I’m sharing it none the less.
Written & directed by Frank Boxman
Camera/sound: Mark Rijk
Light: Ruth
Editing: Frank Boxman
Actors: Margaret Cieslak. Frank Boxman
A golden oldie for some of us from way back during my studies at Open Studio in Amsterdam. Lacking a crew for the day, I came up with this little flick while Ruth the camera-woman went to get some props. Since it was just the two of us, the joke was that I’d be playing three characters. Merijn joined in at some point as stand-in and smoke-machine 
It’s a spoof on the mob-genre, which I really don’t find all that interesting. I’m ripping something from The Godfather or some such film. I remember a scene with a guy flipping a coin and talking down a guy named Frankie. Maybe I saw this when I was eleven, I don’t know the film. Do you?
