Johan van der Keuken Movies

As part of the celebrations for 100 years of Amsterdam’s Vondelpark in 1965, the Vondelpark was transformed into a massive sculpture garden...

In the district of Amsterdam where Johan van der Keuken lived with his family for more than twenty years, the "Islands of the West", the inhabitants...

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...

The final part of Keuken's 'North-South' trilogy, which examines the complex and unequal relationships between industrialized and developing nations....

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

Film essay about the slums of 1960's Amsterdam.

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.

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

Short documentary about Yrrah, the ruthless illustrator who was always giggling. First of four in a series for the VPRO.

Five portraits from the mid-seventies. The nouveau riches and the nouveau pauvres take their places. With Joop Uchtman, Claude Menard, Ome Joop...

This film is a playful and experimental film object. The images of several films by Johan van der Keuken are mounted in a rhythmic and circular way...

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

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

In SPIRIT OF THE TIME (1968) van der Keuken presents a collage of "drop-outs," protesters (both left and right), musicians and "hippies." He...

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

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...

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

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

A spew of images swarm the screen; appearing before no answers-man and his machinery, denuded wholly of its grace and beauty.

In this short documentary by Johan van der Keuken, he films young women walking the streets of Amsterdam.