Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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

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

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 Sarajevo Film Festival. Sarajevo in the twentieth month of its besiegement. The situation is critical but the city...

One of Van der Keuken's earliest fictional shorts.

An short anti-cruise missile film created in collaboration with a group of filmmakers.

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

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

Film essay about the slums of 1960's Amsterdam.

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...

Experimental documentary by Johan van der Keuken about Dutch painter and poet Lucebert.

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

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

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

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 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...

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