Johan van der Keuken Filmes

It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

With the use of montage sequences, voiced over with the observations of the children, van der Keuken was able to use artistic expression to portray...

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...

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

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...

BEPPIE is a moving and disarming portrait of an Amsterdam street urchin. Van der Keuken once described her as follows: 'She was ten years old and the...

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

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

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

The point of departure for this film is the 1981 composition De Tijd by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. Van der Keuken leaves the music undisturbed...

An short anti-cruise missile film created in collaboration with a group of filmmakers.

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,...