Johan van der Keuken Movies

Face Value is a film combining a conscious approach with spontaneity, and contemplation with action. It presents us with the differing views of a...

Film essay about the slums of 1960's Amsterdam.

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

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

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...

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...

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

Detective Beauty undertakes an investigation into reality. He tries to understand a world he cannot grasp, to capture the things that escape him.

Rare fictional short, written by Remco Campert, in the veins of existentialism. About a young man who is in love with the girlfriend of his best pal.

Van der Keuken follows the creative process of Lucebert, a Dutch painter annex poet. Episode four 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.

Two years after making his film BLIND KIND, Van der Keuken contacted the blind boy that had impressed him most at the time.

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,...

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

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

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 SPIRIT OF THE TIME (1968) van der Keuken presents a collage of "drop-outs," protesters (both left and right), musicians and "hippies." He...

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...

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

De Nieuwe IJstijd is the third part of the triptych Noord-Zuid (North-South), in which the director focuses on the relationships between rich and...