Johan van der Keuken Movies

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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