Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

BEPPIE is a moving and disarming portrait of an Amsterdam street urchin. Van der Keuken once described her as follows: 'She was ten years old and the...

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

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...

Van der Keuken follows the creative process of Lucebert, a Dutch painter annex poet. Episode four of four in a series for the VPRO.

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

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

Last Words: My Sister Yoka (1998) is the director's tribute to his sister, who speaks to the camera just days before she dies of cancer.

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

The indomitable laughter of a radical. A collage. Third of four in a series for the VPRO.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...