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 ...

Still from "A monument for a gorrila" by Bert Haanstra. In one of the documentaries that Dutch film-maker Bert Haanstra filmed in Burgers’ Dierenpark some twenty years ago, there is a sequence in ...

Still from "A monument for a gorrila" by Bert Haanstra. There are many misunderstandings about musicality. People who consider themselves to be unmusical, say that they have no feel for rhythm, or ...

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 ...

This is Glas, a 1959 Oscar-winning short subject documentary by Bert Haanstra about glass making, and it is the most mesmerizing thing you’ll see today. The film is notable for a number of reasons, ...