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 by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

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

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 the person of To Sang, a Chinese-born photographer living and working in Amsterdam, JVDK has found his perfect counterpart and alter ego. To...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

"I am far away on a distant journey through my own city", filmmaker Johan van der Keuken says at the end of his four-hour portrait of Amsterdam. The...

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

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

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

A "revolutionary theater" troupe from North Vietnam performs in Amsterdam.

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