Barbara Meter

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Barbara Meter
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Barbara Meter in 1992
Born1939 (age 86–87)
Alma materNetherlands Film Academy, London College of Communication

Barbara Meter is a Dutch filmmaker and co-founder of Electric Cinema.

Early life and career

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Barbara Meter was born in Amsterdam in 1939 to Jewish-German parents.[1] Meter graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 1963.[2]

Meter co-founded Electric Cinema in Amsterdam sometime in the early 1970s. Electric Cinema was made to multi-screen presentations, performance-based films, and videos.[2] The Eye Filmmuseum described Electric Cinema as a "platform for experimental and avant-garde film in Amsterdam". Electric Cinema only lasted a few years.[1]

Meter got an MA from London College of Printing. Her thesis was on found footage.[3]

The EYE Filmmuseum featured some of Meter's short films in an exhibit curated by Mónica Savirón.[4]

Filmography

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  • Aap Noot Mies (1963)[5]
  • Song for Four Hands (1970)[6]
  • Een herfstig dagje in Ruigoord (1981)[7]
  • Graffiti Amsterdam '78-'81 (1981)[8]
  • De afstand tot dichterbij (1982)[9]
  • Binnenstebuiten (1982)[10]
  • Legato (1984)[11]
  • In het voorbijgaan (1985)[12]
  • Weer-bericht (1989)[13]
  • Ins & Outs (1989)[14]
  • Laura (1994)[15]
  • Departure on Arrival (1996)[16]
  • Apparances (2000)[3]
  • Ariadne (2004)[17]
  • A Touch (2008)[3]
  • Stretto (2005)[3]
  • Bis an den Himmel und noch viel mehr (2015)[18]
  • Nachtlicht, a search for security (2022)[19][20]

References

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