Barbara Meter
{{short description|Dutch filmmaker (born 1939)}}
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| image = Barbara meter-1618051424.JPG
| caption = Barbara Meter in 1992
| birth_date = 1939
| birth_place = Amsterdam
| alma_mater = Netherlands Film Academy, London College of Communication
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Barbara Meter is a Dutch filmmaker and co-founder of Electric Cinema.
Early life and career
Barbara Meter was born in Amsterdam in 1939 to Jewish-German parents.{{Cite web |title=Monuments to transience: the films of Barbara Meter |url=https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/magazine/monumenten-voor-vluchtigheid-de-films-van-barbara-meter/1158664 |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Eye Filmmuseum |language=en}} Meter graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 1963.{{Cite web |last=Bittencourt |first=Ela |date=2017-04-27 |title=Flickering Portraits: A Barbara Meter Retrospective |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/flickering-portraits-a-barbara-meter-retrospective-60046/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}
Meter co-founded Electric Cinema in Amsterdam sometime in the early 1970s. Electric Cinema was made to muti-screen presentations, performance-based films, and videos. The Eye Filmmuseum described Electric Cinema as a "platform for experimental and avant-garde film in Amsterdam". Electric Cinema only lasted a few years.
Meter got a MA from London College of Printing. Her thesis was on found footage.{{Cite web |title=Found Sounds: A Retrospective of Barbara Meter’s Avant-Garde Films |url=https://www.screenslate.com/articles/found-sounds-retrospective-barbara-meters-avant-garde-films |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Screen Slate |language=en}}
The EYE Filmmuseum featured some of Meter's short films in an exhibit curated by Mónica Savirón.{{Cite web |last=Admin |first=Alchemy |title=FOUND SOUNDS: A Retrospective of Barbara Meter’s Avant-Garde Films |url=https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/barbara-meter/ |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk |language=en-GB}}
Filmography
- Aap Noot Mies (1963){{Cite web |title=Aap Noot Mies... Film |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/aap-noot-mies-film |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- Song for Four Hands (1970){{Cite web |last=Bittencourt |first=Ela |date=2018-04-23 |title=A Celebration of Overlooked Women Filmmakers |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/celebration-overlooked-women-filmmakers |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Frieze |language=en}}
- Een herfstig dagje in Ruigoord (1981){{Cite web |title=Een herfstig dagje in Ruigoord |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/een-herfstig-dagje-in-ruigoord |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- Graffiti Amsterdam '78-'81 (1981){{Cite web |title=Graffiti Amsterdam '78-'81 |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/graffiti-amsterdam-78-81 |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- De afstand tot dichterbij (1982){{Cite web |title=De afstand tot dichterbij |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/de-afstand-tot-dichterbij |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- Binnenstebuiten (1982){{Cite web |title=Binnenstebuiten |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/binnenstebuiten |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- Legato (1984){{Cite web |title=Legato |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/legato |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241013233020/https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/legato |archive-date=2024-10-13 |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- In het voorbijgaan (1985){{Cite web |title=In het voorbijgaan |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/in-het-voorbijgaan-2 |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- Weer-bericht (1989){{Cite web |title=Weer-bericht |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/weer-bericht |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- Ins & Outs (1989){{Cite web |title=Ins & Outs |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/ins-outs |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- Laura (1994){{Cite web |title=Laura |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/laura |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- Departure on Arrival (1996){{Cite web |title=Departure on Arrival |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/departure-on-arrival |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- Apparances (2000)
- Ariadne (2004){{Cite web |title=Ariadne |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/ariadne |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- A Touch (2008)
- Stretto (2005)
- Bis an den Himmel und noch viel mehr (2015){{Cite web |title=Bis an den Himmel und noch viel mehr |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/bis-an-den-himmel-und-noch-viel-mehr |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}
- Nachtlicht, a search for security (2022){{Cite web |title=Nachtlicht |url=https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/film/nachtlicht-2 |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Nederlands Film Festival |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2022-11-22 |title=‘Nachtlicht’ toont het cruciale verschil dat gemaakt werd door de visie en moed van één vrouw |url=https://www.groene.nl/artikel/kinderen-in-ballingschap |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=De Groene Amsterdammer |language=nl}}