Johan van der Keuken Movies

Detective Beauty undertakes an investigation into reality. He tries to understand a world he cannot grasp, to capture the things that escape him.

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...

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

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

The indomitable laughter of a radical. A collage. Third 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.

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 his very first ‘independent film’, Dutch master filmmaker Johan Van der Keuken presents an image of Amsterdam in the sixties. He set...

As part of the celebrations for 100 years of Amsterdam’s Vondelpark in 1965, the Vondelpark was transformed into a massive sculpture garden...

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...

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

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.

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

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

Film essay about the slums of 1960's Amsterdam.

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

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

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