Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

The opening segment for a planned larger documentary by Johan van der Keuken. Unfortunately, this is all that was completed before his death. These...

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

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.

"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...

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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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...

Experimental documentary by Johan van der Keuken about Dutch painter and poet Lucebert.

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

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

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

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

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...