Wim van der Linden

Wim van der Linden (1 January 1941, Amsterdam – 4 April 2001, Miami) was a Dutch photographer and film and television director. As a photographer he documented slums and subcultures in Amsterdam in the 1960s. His "Tulips", one of four experimental and satirical Sad Movies (1966-1967), is praised as one of the dramatic high points of Dutch film history, and with Wim T. Schippers and others he made groundbreaking and controversial television shows for the VPRO in the 1960s to the 1970s.

Biography Van der Linden studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy, As a "photographer of Amsterdam", he is said to be on a par with his more famous colleague Ed van der Elsken Van der Linden's negatives are archived in the Maria Austria Institute in Amsterdam.

The films he made in the early 1960s show his affinity with the Fluxus movement. "Tulips", a favorite among critics, consisted of a two and a half-minute film of a credenza with a vase of tulips on it; the camera is motionless and the film consists of one single long take, with tension provided courtesy of one single leaf that falls as the camera slowly zooms in and a dramatic soundtrack. The Sad Movies were released as a bonus on the DVD edition of De Fred Haché Show. Van der Linden worked as a camera man as well, for instance on the first full-length movie by Wim Verstappen, De minder gelukkige terugkeer van Joszef Kàtus naar het land van Rembrandt (1966).

Select filmography Hoepla (1967) De Fred Haché Show (1971) Barend is weer bezig (1972–1973) Van Oekel's Discohoek (1975) Het is weer zo laat (1978)