Johan van der Keuken

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 ...

Last Words: My Sister Yoka (1998) is the director’s tribute to his sister, who speaks to the camera just days before she dies of cancer.

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 ...

“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 ...

Three-part film about the Dutch painter and poet Lucebert who died in 1994. Director Johan van der Keuken made three short films about his friend ...

A compilation of six standalone short films, each inspired by a contemporary Dutch music composition and created as part of a collaboration ...

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

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

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

Face Value is a film combining a conscious approach with spontaneity, and contemplation with action. It presents us with the differing views of a ...

A poetic depiction of life and ritual in the south Indian state of Kerala. We see how knowledge is passed down from generation to generation: ...

The film consists of two basic components: the music of Charles Ives, ‘The unanswered question’, from 1907, and a letter written by ...

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 point of departure for this film is the 1981 composition De Tijd by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. Van der Keuken leaves the music ...

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

Johan van der Keuken’s film was made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of De Melkweg (The Milky Way). De Melkweg is a multimedia venue in ...

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation riots and squatting actions) via Paris, ...

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