Leo Erken started to work with moving pictures and sound in the late nineties. So far two big film projects have been completed.

Tulpengoud (Tulip Gold) tells the story of three families from Noord Holland who grow and cultivate tulips. The lives of these families are disturbed when there is a sudden, very sharp, rise in the prices of new tulip varieties.

Eva Besnyö -
de Keurcollectie
For three years Leo Erken filmed his colleague Eva Besnyö, 54 years his senior. The film was released and broadcast in Januari 2003. Eva Besnyö died on the 12th of December 2003. She was one of the best-known and celebrated Dutch photographers of the twentieth century.