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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

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

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

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...

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

The point of departure for this film is the 1981 composition De Tijd by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. Van der Keuken leaves the music undisturbed...

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

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...

Detective Beauty undertakes an investigation into reality. He tries to understand a world he cannot grasp, to capture the things that escape him.

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

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

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...