Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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...

Documentary shows brass bands from Nepal, Surinam, Indonesia and Ghana.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

"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...

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

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