Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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...

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

Two years after making his film BLIND KIND, Van der Keuken contacted the blind boy that had impressed him most at the time.

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...

Sarajevo in the twentieth month of its besiegement. The situation is critical, but the city chooses to organise an international film festival. Dutch...

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...

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...

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

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...

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

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

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

"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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...