Johan van der Keuken Movies

In SPIRIT OF THE TIME (1968) van der Keuken presents a collage of "drop-outs," protesters (both left and right), musicians and "hippies." He...

The indomitable laughter of a radical. A collage. Third of four in a series for the VPRO.

Film essay about the slums of 1960's Amsterdam.

Collage film in which Van der Keuken makes use of Eddy Posthuma de Boer's source material.

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

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

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

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,...

The opening segment for a planned larger documentary by Johan van der Keuken. Unfortunately, this is all that was completed before his death. These...

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

One of Van der Keuken's earliest fictional shorts.

Memories of World War II are evoked by images of the then current events of 1970.

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

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

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...

De Nieuwe IJstijd is the third part of the triptych Noord-Zuid (North-South), in which the director focuses on the relationships between rich and...

An adaptation of a story by Remco Campert. The long and silent image of a boy during the morning hours, in front of a mirror.