Johan van der Keuken Filmes

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

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

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

Experimental documentary by Johan van der Keuken about Dutch painter and poet Lucebert.

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

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'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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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