Johan van der Keuken Movies

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.

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

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

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

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...

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...

A compilation of six standalone short films, each inspired by a contemporary Dutch music composition and created as part of a collaboration between...

Sarajevo in the twentieth month of its besiegement. The situation is critical, but the city chooses to organise an international film festival. Dutch...

After the famous Dutch documentary filmmaker Johan van der Keuken is told that he has prostate cancer and only a few years left to live he decides to...

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

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,...

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...

A spew of images swarm the screen; appearing before no answers-man and his machinery, denuded wholly of its grace and beauty.

Documentary about the Wadden Sea in which Van der Keuken looks at this ribbon in the landscape through the eyes of a city-dweller. A film about the...

The final part of Keuken's 'North-South' trilogy, which examines the complex and unequal relationships between industrialized and developing nations....

Two years after making his film BLIND KIND, Van der Keuken contacted the blind boy that had impressed him most at the time.

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...

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