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Bas Jan Ader

Born 1942-04-19 Winschoten, Netherlands 10 films

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan 'Bas Jan' Ader (19 April 1942 – disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual- and performance artist, photograper. His work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances. He made performative installations, including Please Don't Leave Me (1969). Ader was lost at sea in 1975, attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the American coast to England sailing in a thirteen-foot sailboat. His deserted vessel…

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Filmography

10 films

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80 jaar, reeds - op de T bij Wim Schippers poster

An ode to multi-talented artist and radio and television producer Wim T. Schippers by absurdist Ron…

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80 jaar, reeds - op de T bij Wim Schippers

★ 0.0 2022

The Man Who Looked Beyond the Horizon poster

More than 40 years ago, Bas Jan Ader decided to go on an adventure. In a tiny sailing boat, the Dut…

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The Man Who Looked Beyond the Horizon

★ 0.0 2019

The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disapp…

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Here Is Always Somewhere Else

★ 6.0 2007

Untitled (Tea Party) is a short silent film. The camera slowly zooms into a sunlit clearing in a fo…

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Untitled (Tea Party)

★ 5.0 1972

Shot in his garage-studio, the camera records Ader painstakingly hoisting a large brick over his sh…

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Nightfall

★ 3.5 1971

This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of…

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I'm Too Sad to Tell You

★ 6.0 1971

Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river b…

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Broken Fall (Organic)

★ 6.0 1971

One of a series of ‘falls’ by Bas Jan Ader that he recorded on film, this work was filmed in West K…

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Broken Fall (Geometric)

★ 5.5 1971

Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.

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Fall 2

★ 6.0 1970

Bas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-store…

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Fall 1

★ 6.0 1970