Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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...

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

A short portrait of poet Bert Schierbeek, who reads from his poetry.

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.

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

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...

Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others.

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

Film essay about the slums of 1960's Amsterdam.

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

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

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.

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...

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 went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation riots and squatting actions) via Paris, southern...

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

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.