Johan van der Keuken Filmes

Face Value is a film combining a conscious approach with spontaneity, and contemplation with action. It presents us with the differing views of a...

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.

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

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

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...

Two years after making his film BLIND KIND, Van der Keuken contacted the blind boy that had impressed him most at the time.

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...

"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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

The tools people adopt to try and control nature. In parallel with the early history of Van der Keuken's child.