Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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

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

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...

"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...

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

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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...

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

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

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