Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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

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

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 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...

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

In the late sixties, the American saxophone player and living jazz legend Ben Webster lived in Amsterdam for a year. Webster, who was born in Kansas...

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the...

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

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

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

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

"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...

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...

A 1958 French language short film written and directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Guy Mairesse, Paniaras and Jean Patrick.

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...

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...

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

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

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