Johan van der Keuken Movies

Collage film in which Van der Keuken makes use of Eddy Posthuma de Boer's source material.

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.

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...

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

Part of Johan van der Keuken's North/South series, The White Castle focuses on the impact of the West on the underclass: on the concrete realities of...

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...

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....

Short documentary about the visual artist Shinkichi Tajiri (1923-2009). Second of four in a series for the VPRO.

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

The tools people adopt to try and control nature. In parallel with the early history of Van der Keuken's child.

During the celebrations of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, Johan van der Keuken made a film about the revolutionary ideals of equality,...