For the Time Being (2002)
The opening segment for a planned larger documentary by Johan van der Keuken. Unfortunately, this is all that was completed before his death. These are small portraits of people he met during his travels. ...
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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.
The opening segment for a planned larger documentary by Johan van der Keuken. Unfortunately, this is all that was completed before his death. These are small portraits of people he met during his travels. ...
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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. He ...
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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 w ...
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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. These taps later in the cutting become the references for synchronising pictu ...
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"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. The city is presented as a place where people from all corners of the world live, who all exert their cultural ...
Watch NowThree-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. The black-and-white film Lucebert, dichter-schilder was shot in 1962 on a very low b ...
Watch NowA 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. ...
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A spew of images swarm the screen; appearing before no answers-man and his machinery, denuded wholly of its grace and beauty. ...
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Sarajevo in the twentieth month of its besiegement. The situation is critical, but the city chooses to organise an international film festival. Dutch filmmakers Johan van der Keuken and Frank Vellenga present Van der Keuken's documentaries Face Value and B ...
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Documentary shows brass bands from Nepal, Surinam, Indonesia and Ghana. ...
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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 Net ...
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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. ...
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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. Rather than lingering on the festivities, he lingers on the crowds in the metro and on ...
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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. Performance footage show ...
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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 has lost her memory. Between these two elements, which are often repeated, a story like an abyss is built, ...
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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 investigation was money, in particular the maniacal drive to accumulate it in the era of Thatcherite/Reaganite ...
Watch NowThe point of departure for this film is the 1981 composition De Tijd by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. Van der Keuken leaves the music undisturbed as an autonomous soundtrack and has the images engage in a sort of battle with it. These images are associa ...
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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 Amsterdam, which was established in the spirit of the '60s, and became an international centre of counter-culture. ...
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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. He made his personal travelogue in three parts for VPRO television. Later, he f ...
Watch NowA musical comedy. One God creates the world, the other destroys the creation and hopes to make a better job of it. ...
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Documentary about the Wadden Sea in which Van der Keuken looks at this ribbon in the landscape through the eyes of a city-dweller. A film about the relationship between the minuscule and the overwhelming in this flat jungle. ...
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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. ...
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Shot in Lebanon in 1975 just before the civil war. The director delivers a nuanced account of the complexities surrounding the Palestinian issue. ...
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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 contempo ...
Watch NowThe final part of Keuken's 'North-South' trilogy, which examines the complex and unequal relationships between industrialized and developing nations. The film draws a sharp parallel between two distinct groups of people: impoverished Peruvians living in th ...
Watch NowPart 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. Interweaving images of the Spa ...
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Watch NowVan der Keuken juxtaposes images of Dutch children learning to read against those of the coup d'état in Chile. ...
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The tools people adopt to try and control nature. In parallel with the early history of Van der Keuken's child. ...
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Detective Beauty undertakes an investigation into reality. He tries to understand a world he cannot grasp, to capture the things that escape him. ...
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Memories of World War II are evoked by images of the then current events of 1970. ...
Watch NowJohan 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 stor ...
Watch NowProtesting youngsters chant slogans such as "Johnson murderer" and sing "Murderer, many people are being killed". It is the late sixties. In his film, Van der Keuken presents his visual view of the changes in the mentality of a growing group of young peopl ...
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In SPIRIT OF THE TIME (1968) van der Keuken presents a collage of "drop-outs," protesters (both left and right), musicians and "hippies." He organizes these figures around an idea of "mental readjustment," otherwise known as the counterculture. Acting upon ...
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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 City in 1909, was a unique personality in the world of jazz and blues. In the thirties, he played with all ...
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A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's 'Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach' ...
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Experimental documentary by Johan van der Keuken about Dutch painter and poet Lucebert. ...
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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. An Amsterdam child, sweet and crooked as a corksc ...
Watch NowCollage film in which Van der Keuken makes use of Eddy Posthuma de Boer's source material. ...
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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. 25 epic artworks by well-known artists such as Pablo Pica ...
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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. ...
Watch NowAn adaptation of a story by Remco Campert. The long and silent image of a boy during the morning hours, in front of a mirror. ...
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In his very first 'independent film', Dutch master filmmaker Johan Van der Keuken presents an image of Amsterdam in the sixties. He set out taking just his camera, without any pre-defined concept. The result is a poetic observation of Amsterdam by a deeply ...
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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. ...
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A 1958 French language short film written and directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Guy Mairesse, Paniaras and Jean Patrick. ...
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Johan van der Keuken's first film is a uniquely beautiful portrait of Paris at dawn. ...
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Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and journe ...
Watch NowFollowing in the footsteps of his uncle, this film documents the last days of Johan van der Keuken. ...
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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. Johan van der Keuken analyzes the relationships between art and reality, morality and the po ...
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Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others. ...
Watch NowThe 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 contempo ...
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