Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...