Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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

Following in the footsteps of his uncle, this film documents the last days of Johan van der Keuken.

"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.

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.

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

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

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

A poetic depiction of life and ritual in the south Indian state of Kerala. We see how knowledge is passed down from generation to generation: within...

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...

Experimental documentary by Johan van der Keuken about Dutch painter and poet Lucebert.

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

The film is put together as a collection of autonomous images which, once combined, make up van der Keuken's mental universe: family happiness,...

Protesting youngsters chant slogans such as “Johnson murderer” and sing “Murderer, many people are being killed”. It is the...

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...

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

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...