Johan van der Keuken Movies

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

Short documentary about Yrrah, the ruthless illustrator who was always giggling. First of four in a series for the VPRO.

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

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

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...

One of Van der Keuken's earliest fictional shorts.

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

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

Film essay about the slums of 1960's Amsterdam.

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

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

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

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

Five portraits from the mid-seventies. The nouveau riches and the nouveau pauvres take their places. With Joop Uchtman, Claude Menard, Ome Joop...

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

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

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...