Movies

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...

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...

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

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

Rare fictional short, written by Remco Campert, in the veins of existentialism. About a young man who is in love with the girlfriend of his best pal.

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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