Johan van der Keuken Movies

"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...

After the famous Dutch documentary filmmaker Johan van der Keuken is told that he has prostate cancer and only a few years left to live he decides to...

Documentary shows brass bands from Nepal, Surinam, Indonesia and Ghana.

It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Detective Beauty undertakes an investigation into reality. He tries to understand a world he cannot grasp, to capture the things that escape him.

Johan van der Keuken explains, "Some fifteen filmmakers were asked to make a film series in a relay style for a very popular variety program on Dutch...

An adaptation of a story by Remco Campert. The long and silent image of a boy during the morning hours, in front of a mirror.

The point of departure for this film is the 1981 composition De Tijd by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. Van der Keuken leaves the music undisturbed...

During the celebrations of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, Johan van der Keuken made a film about the revolutionary ideals of equality,...

Collage film in which Van der Keuken makes use of Eddy Posthuma de Boer's source material.

Johan van der Keuken's first film is a uniquely beautiful portrait of Paris at dawn.

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

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

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