Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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

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...

In his very first ‘independent film’, Dutch master filmmaker Johan Van der Keuken presents an image of Amsterdam in the sixties. He set...

Detective Beauty undertakes an investigation into reality. He tries to understand a world he cannot grasp, to capture the things that escape him.

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

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...

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

Face Value is a film combining a conscious approach with spontaneity, and contemplation with action. It presents us with the differing views of a...

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

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...

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

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

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.

Rare fictional short, written by Remco Campert, in the veins of existentialism. About a young man who is in love with the girlfriend of his best pal.

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

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...

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,...