Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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...

This film is a playful and experimental film object. The images of several films by Johan van der Keuken are mounted in a rhythmic and circular way...

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

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

Three-part film about the Dutch painter and poet Lucebert who died in 1994. Director Johan van der Keuken made three short films about his friend and...

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...

Part of Johan van der Keuken's North/South series, The White Castle focuses on the impact of the West on the underclass: on the concrete realities of...

Collage film in which Van der Keuken makes use of Eddy Posthuma de Boer's source material.

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...

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

The tools people adopt to try and control nature. In parallel with the early history of Van der Keuken's child.

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

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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