Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

One of Van der Keuken's earliest fictional shorts.

"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 his very first ‘independent film’, Dutch master filmmaker Johan Van der Keuken presents an image of Amsterdam in the sixties. He set...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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

Shot in Lebanon in 1975 just before the civil war. The director delivers a nuanced account of the complexities surrounding the Palestinian issue.