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Johan van der Keuken (4 April 1938 – 7 January 2001) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer. In a career that spanned 42 years, Van der Keuken produced 55 documentary films, six of which won eight awards. He also wrote nine books on photography and films, his field of interest. For all his efforts, he received seven awards for his life work, and one other for photography.
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20 February 1973
Van der Keuken juxtaposes images of Dutch children learning to read against those of the coup d'état in Chile.
01 January 1994
A compilation of six standalone short films, each inspired by a contemporary Dutch music composition and created as part of a collaboration between Nederlandse film directors and composers for a Holland Festival presentation.
19 March 1989
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 on film.
27 July 1984
The point of departure for this film is the 1981 composition De Tijd by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.
13 September 1988
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: within the family, through the village economy, and especially from teachers to students.
28 February 1980
A musical comedy. One God creates the world, the other destroys the creation and hopes to make a better job of it.
04 November 2005
Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others.
01 January 1974
The final part of Keuken's 'North-South' trilogy, which examines the complex and unequal relationships between industrialized and developing nations.
01 September 1994
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 inspiration Lucebert.
25 October 2000
Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.
01 January 1967
A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's 'Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach'
01 January 2002
Following in the footsteps of his uncle, this film documents the last days of Johan van der Keuken.
01 January 1973
A short portrait of poet Bert Schierbeek, who reads from his poetry.
01 January 1967
Experimental documentary by Johan van der Keuken about Dutch painter and poet Lucebert.
01 January 2001
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 Dutch director.
01 January 1984
An short anti-cruise missile film created in collaboration with a group of filmmakers.
01 January 1958
A 1958 French language short film written and directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Guy Mairesse, Paniaras and Jean Patrick.
01 January 1993
Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others.
07 September 1991
Face Value is a film combining a conscious approach with spontaneity, and contemplation with action. It presents us with the differing views of a region we call “Europe”, an imaginary Europe situated somewhere between London, Marseilles, Prague and the Netherlands.
01 January 1999
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 to emphasize the repetition and similarity of the gestures they give to see: the daily gestures of men and women at work, throughout the world.
01 January 1967
In the late sixties, the American saxophone player and living jazz legend Ben Webster lived in Amsterdam for a year.
01 April 1973
Part of Johan van der Keuken's North/South series, The White Castle focuses on the impact of the West on the underclass: on the concrete realities of their daily life and on the way their existence is isolated and frustrated.
09 October 1996
"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.
31 August 1957
Johan van der Keuken's first film is a uniquely beautiful portrait of Paris at dawn.
21 December 1965
BEPPIE is a moving and disarming portrait of an Amsterdam street urchin. Van der Keuken once described her as follows: 'She was ten years old and the joy of the Achtergracht, where I was living at the time.
01 January 1989
During the celebrations of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, Johan van der Keuken made a film about the revolutionary ideals of equality, liberty and fraternity.
01 April 1973
A "revolutionary theater" troupe from North Vietnam performs in Amsterdam.
18 February 1962
Short documentary about Yrrah, the ruthless illustrator who was always giggling. First of four in a series for the VPRO.
13 March 1993
Documentary shows brass bands from Nepal, Surinam, Indonesia and Ghana.
30 January 2000
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 take an extended vacation while filming his journeys so the afterworld can learn about his experiences.
18 February 1960
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.
01 January 1964
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 the sightless children’s unique perspective of the world.
01 January 1963
In his very first ‘independent film’, Dutch master filmmaker Johan Van der Keuken presents an image of Amsterdam in the sixties.
01 January 1981
Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation riots and squatting actions) via Paris, southern France and Italy to Egypt.
01 January 1965
As part of the celebrations for 100 years of Amsterdam’s Vondelpark in 1965, the Vondelpark was transformed into a massive sculpture garden under the direction of Stedelijk Museum director Sandberg.
01 January 1968
In SPIRIT OF THE TIME (1968) van der Keuken presents a collage of "drop-outs," protesters (both left and right), musicians and "hippies.
02 January 1976
Five portraits from the mid-seventies. The nouveau riches and the nouveau pauvres take their places. With Joop Uchtman, Claude Menard, Ome Joop Beaux, Doris Schwert en Jan van Haagen.
01 January 1974
The film is put together as a collection of autonomous images which, once combined, make up van der Keuken's mental universe: family happiness, fragments of some of his earlier films, a homage to the saxophonist Ben Webster, two poems by the great contemporary poets Remco Campert and Lucebert, a portrait of the director's grandfather, who taught him photography at the age of twelve.
18 February 1962
The indomitable laughter of a radical. A collage. Third of four in a series for the VPRO.
01 January 1970
Detective Beauty undertakes an investigation into reality. He tries to understand a world he cannot grasp, to capture the things that escape him.
19 February 1963
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.
01 January 1978
Documentary about the Wadden Sea in which Van der Keuken looks at this ribbon in the landscape through the eyes of a city-dweller.
01 January 1973
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 were mobilised during then ‘70s in order to protest against the city’s policy of demolishing housing to make way for big commercial buildings.
28 February 1982
Johan van der Keuken's film was made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of De Melkweg (The Milky Way).
18 February 1962
Short documentary about the visual artist Shinkichi Tajiri (1923-2009). Second of four in a series for the VPRO.
17 June 1997
In the person of To Sang, a Chinese-born photographer living and working in Amsterdam, JVDK has found his perfect counterpart and alter ego.
01 January 1997
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 quickly taps the microphone.
18 February 1959
In this short documentary by Johan van der Keuken, he films young women walking the streets of Amsterdam.
01 January 1968
Protesting youngsters chant slogans such as “Johnson murderer” and sing “Murderer, many people are being killed”.
01 November 1993
Sarajevo in the twentieth month of its besiegement. The situation is critical, but the city chooses to organise an international film festival.
01 January 1970
Memories of World War II are evoked by images of the then current events of 1970.
19 February 1964
One of Van der Keuken's earliest fictional shorts.
07 January 1975
Shot in Lebanon in 1975 just before the civil war. The director delivers a nuanced account of the complexities surrounding the Palestinian issue.
01 January 1986
In 1984–85, Johan van der Keuken took his camera across the globe, from Amsterdam to New York to Hong Kong, ending in Geneva.
01 January 1966
Two years after making his film BLIND KIND, Van der Keuken contacted the blind boy that had impressed him most at the time.
09 February 1968
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 television: each new program was to start from the last image of the previous program, developing the story from that image.
07 January 1972
The tools people adopt to try and control nature. In parallel with the early history of Van der Keuken's child.
20 February 1965
Collage film in which Van der Keuken makes use of Eddy Posthuma de Boer's source material.
20 February 1965
Film essay about the slums of 1960's Amsterdam.
