Johan van der Keuken Movies

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...

One of Van der Keuken's earliest fictional shorts.

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

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

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

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

Following in the footsteps of his uncle, this film documents the last days of Johan van der Keuken.

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

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

Van der Keuken follows the creative process of Lucebert, a Dutch painter annex poet. Episode four of four in a series for the VPRO.

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

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...

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...

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

Three-part film about the Dutch painter and poet Lucebert who died in 1994. Director Johan van der Keuken made three short films about his friend and...

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

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...

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...

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