Johan van der Keuken Movies

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.

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...

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...

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

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

Documentary shows brass bands from Nepal, Surinam, Indonesia and Ghana.

"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...

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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 by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

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