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.

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

Film essay about the slums of 1960's Amsterdam.

This film is a playful and experimental film object. The images of several films by Johan van der Keuken are mounted in a rhythmic and circular way...

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

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

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

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

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 and...

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

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.

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...

During the celebrations of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, Johan van der Keuken made a film about the revolutionary ideals of equality,...

One of Van der Keuken's earliest fictional shorts.

A short portrait of poet Bert Schierbeek, who reads from his poetry.

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

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