Johan van der Keuken Filmes

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...

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...

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

In SPIRIT OF THE TIME (1968) van der Keuken presents a collage of "drop-outs," protesters (both left and right), musicians and "hippies." He...

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...

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

In the district of Amsterdam where Johan van der Keuken lived with his family for more than twenty years, the "Islands of the West", the inhabitants...

The final part of Keuken's 'North-South' trilogy, which examines the complex and unequal relationships between industrialized and developing nations....

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Short documentary about Yrrah, the ruthless illustrator who was always giggling. First of four in a series for the VPRO.

Following in the footsteps of his uncle, this film documents the last days of Johan van der Keuken.

In the late sixties, the American saxophone player and living jazz legend Ben Webster lived in Amsterdam for a year. Webster, who was born in Kansas...

Short documentary about the visual artist Shinkichi Tajiri (1923-2009). Second of four in a series for the VPRO.