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Film Production

Camera Operator:
2004  A Labyrinth of Time
2007  Lipari
2010  Leaving Mandela Park

Cinematography:
2004  A Labyrinth of Time
2005  Memento Mori
2007  Lipari
2010  Leaving Mandela Park
2012  The Asylum
2013  Off Ground
2014  Boys
2023  Rocco & Sjuul

Director of Photography:
1994  Xime
2004  A Labyrinth of Time
2005  Echoes of War
2005  Love Me or Leave Me
2005  Memento Mori
2005  Souls of Naples
2005  Tea
2007  Between Heaven and Earth
2007  Lipari
2008  The Last Days of Shishmaref
2010  Leaving Mandela Park
2011  Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
2012  The Asylum
2013  Off Ground
2014  Boys
2017  500 Years
2017  Disappearance
2017  In Blue
2017  The Swap
2019  April, May and June
2020  Romy's Salon
2021  Alles op Tafel
2021  Dwaalspoor
2023  Rocco & Sjuul
2024  Hokwerda's Child

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TV Production

Director of Photography:
2018  Fenix

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About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.