Johan van der Keuken Movies

A compilation of six standalone short films, each inspired by a contemporary Dutch music composition and created as part of a collaboration between...

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...

Three-part film about the Dutch painter and poet Lucebert who died in 1994. Director Johan van der Keuken made three short films about his friend and...

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

Documentary about the Wadden Sea in which Van der Keuken looks at this ribbon in the landscape through the eyes of a city-dweller. A film about the...

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...

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

A spew of images swarm the screen; appearing before no answers-man and his machinery, denuded wholly of its grace and beauty.

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...

Short documentary about Yrrah, the ruthless illustrator who was always giggling. First of four in a series for the VPRO.

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

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

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...

Johan van der Keuken's film was made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of De Melkweg (The Milky Way). De Melkweg is a multimedia venue in Amsterdam,...

Van der Keuken juxtaposes images of Dutch children learning to read against those of the coup d'état in Chile.

The film consists of two basic components: the music of Charles Ives, 'The unanswered question', from 1907, and a letter written by an old woman who...

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...

Short documentary about the visual artist Shinkichi Tajiri (1923-2009). Second of four in a series for the VPRO.

The tools people adopt to try and control nature. In parallel with the early history of Van der Keuken's child.