Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

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

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

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

In the district of Amsterdam where Johan van der Keuken lived with his family for more than twenty years, the "Islands of the West", the inhabitants...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

One of Van der Keuken's earliest fictional shorts.

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...

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...

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