Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

An adaptation of a story by Remco Campert. The long and silent image of a boy during the morning hours, in front of a mirror.

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

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

Johan van der Keuken's film was made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of De Melkweg (The Milky Way). De Melkweg is a multimedia venue 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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Part of Johan van der Keuken's North/South series, The White Castle focuses on the impact of the West on the underclass: on the concrete realities of...