Johan van der Keuken Movies

Film essay about the slums of 1960's Amsterdam.

With the use of montage sequences, voiced over with the observations of the children, van der Keuken was able to use artistic expression to portray...

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the...

The opening segment for a planned larger documentary by Johan van der Keuken. Unfortunately, this is all that was completed before his death. These...

"I am far away on a distant journey through my own city", filmmaker Johan van der Keuken says at the end of his four-hour portrait of Amsterdam. The...

Van der Keuken follows the creative process of Lucebert, a Dutch painter annex poet. Episode four of four in a series for the VPRO.

A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach.

Last Words: My Sister Yoka (1998) is the director's tribute to his sister, who speaks to the camera just days before she dies of cancer.

The indomitable laughter of a radical. A collage. Third of four in a series for the VPRO.

A short portrait of poet Bert Schierbeek, who reads from his poetry.

A musical comedy. One God creates the world, the other destroys the creation and hopes to make a better job of it.

In the late sixties, the American saxophone player and living jazz legend Ben Webster lived in Amsterdam for a year. Webster, who was born in Kansas...

In this short documentary by Johan van der Keuken, he films young women walking the streets of Amsterdam.

In the person of To Sang, a Chinese-born photographer living and working in Amsterdam, JVDK has found his perfect counterpart and alter ego. To...

During the shooting of this film, four long interviews were recorded by Thierry Nouel, marking out the different stages of the life and work of the...

Memories of World War II are evoked by images of the then current events of 1970.

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

A 1958 French language short film written and directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Guy Mairesse, Paniaras and Jean Patrick.

In 1984–85, Johan van der Keuken took his camera across the globe, from Amsterdam to New York to Hong Kong, ending in Geneva. The object of his...

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation riots and squatting actions) via Paris, southern...