Johan van der Keuken Movies

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...

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

BEPPIE is a moving and disarming portrait of an Amsterdam street urchin. Van der Keuken once described her as follows: 'She was ten years old and the...

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

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...

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

"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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

An short anti-cruise missile film created in collaboration with a group of filmmakers.

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...

Sarajevo in the twentieth month of its besiegement. The situation is critical, but the city chooses to organise an international film festival. Dutch...

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