Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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

In 1984–85, Johan van der Keuken took his camera across the globe, from Amsterdam to New York to Hong Kong, ending in Geneva. The object of his...

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

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...

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

One of Van der Keuken's earliest fictional shorts.

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

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

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

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

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

Johan van der Keuken: 'We kept the ends of a lot of shots in Amsterdam Global Village: the camera leaves the subject and pans to the sound woman, who...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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