Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

Johan van der Keuken: 'We kept the ends of a lot of shots in Amsterdam Global Village: the camera leaves the subject and pans to the sound woman, who...

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

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.

As part of the celebrations for 100 years of Amsterdam’s Vondelpark in 1965, the Vondelpark was transformed into a massive sculpture garden...

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...

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

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

"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...

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...

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

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

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...

Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others.

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

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

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...

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

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...