Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

Johan van der Keuken: 'We kept the ends of a lot of shots in Amsterdam Global Village: the camera leaves the subject and pans to the sound woman, who...

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

Short documentary about the Sarajevo Film Festival. Sarajevo in the twentieth month of its besiegement. The situation is critical but the city...

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

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

Van der Keuken juxtaposes images of Dutch children learning to read against those of the coup d'état in Chile.

During the shooting of this film, four long interviews were recorded by Thierry Nouel, marking out the different stages of the life and work of the...

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

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

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,...

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

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

Five portraits from the mid-seventies. The nouveau riches and the nouveau pauvres take their places. With Joop Uchtman, Claude Menard, Ome Joop...

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

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

The film consists of two basic components: the music of Charles Ives, 'The unanswered question', from 1907, and a letter written by an old woman who...

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

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...

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.