Johan van der Keuken Movies

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...

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...

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

A "revolutionary theater" troupe from North Vietnam performs in Amsterdam.

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

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

The indomitable laughter of a radical. A collage. Third 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 shooting of this film, four long interviews were recorded by Thierry Nouel, marking out the different stages of the life and work of the...

"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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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