Johan van der Keuken Movies

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...

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 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...

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 by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

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

"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...

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...

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

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

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

With the use of montage sequences, voiced over with the observations of the children, van der Keuken was able to use artistic expression to portray...

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...

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 went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation riots and squatting actions) via Paris, southern...

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

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

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

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...