Johan van der Keuken


Johan van der Keuken 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.

Works

Documentary films

  • 1957-1960: Produced the film Paris à l'Aube, in collaboration with James Blue and Derry Hall.
  • 1960: Produced the film Sunday, using a "Prosper Dekeukeleire" camera.
  • 1960-1963: Produced the film Even stilte/''A Moment's Silence.
  • 1962: Produced four films on Dutch artists: Yrrah ; Tajiri ; Opland ; and Lucebert, Poet-Painter.
  • 1963: Produced the film The Old Lady, using a "Prosper Dekeukeleire" camera.
  • 1964: Produced two films, Indonesian Boy ; and Blind kind/Blind Child.
  • 1965: Produced two films, Four Walls ; and In the Nest with the Rest. Co-produced Beppie with Ed van der Elsken on camera.
  • 1966: Produced the film Herman Slobbe/Blind Child 2.
  • 1967: Produced two films, A Film for Lucebert ; and Big Ben/Ben Webster in Europe.
  • 1968: Produced three films, The Spirit of the Time ; The Cat ; and The Street is Free ; was cameraman for Louis van Gasteren's Report from Biafra.
  • 1970: Produced two films, Velocity: 40-70, using a "Mat van Hensbergen" camera; and Beauty. In addition, was cameraman for Roeland Kerbosch's Libya in the Rush of Revolution.
  • 1972: Produced the film Diary, North-South Triptych, Part 1.
  • 1973: Produced five films, Bert Schierbeek/The Door ; Het witte kasteel/The White Castle, North-South Triptych, Part 2, in collaboration with Bert Schierbeek; Vietnam Opera ; De muur/The Wall ; and Het leesplankje/The Reading Lesson.
  • 1974: Produced two films, De nieuwe kasteel/The New Ice Age, North-South Triptych', Part 3; and Filmmaker's Holiday.
  • 1975: Produced two films, The Palestinians ; and Springtime.
  • 1977: Produced the film Maarten and the Double Bass.
  • 1978: Produced the award-winning film De platte jungle/Flat Jungle.
  • 1980: Produced the film The Master and the Giant in collaboration with Claude Ménard; was cameraman for Babeth Vanloo's Joseph Beuys at the Rotterdam Museum.
  • 1980-1981: Produced the film The Way South/De weg naar het zuiden.
  • 1982: Produced the film De beeldenstorm/Iconoclasm/A Storm of Images.
  • 1984: Produced two films, Time ; and Toys.
  • 1986: Produced three films, the award-winning I love $ ; Wet Feet in Hong Kong ; and The Unanswered Question, using a "Melle van Essen and Niels van 't Hoff" camera.
  • 1988: Produced the award-winning film Het Oog Boven de Put/The Eye Above the Well.
  • 1989: Was cameraman for Noshka van der Lely's The Mountain World Non-World.
  • 1989-1990: Produced the film The Mask.
  • 1990-1991: Produced the award-winning film Face Value.
  • 1992-1993: Produced the film Brass Unbound in collaboration with Rob Boonzajer Flaes.
  • 1993: Produced the film Sarajevo Film Festival.
  • 1994: Produced three films, Tony's birthday ; the award-winning Lucebert: tijd en afscheid/Lucebert: Time and Farewell ; and On Animal Locomotion, in collaboration with Willem Breuker.
  • 1996: Produced the film Amsterdam Global Village.
  • 1997: Produced two films, Amsterdam Afterbeat ; and To Sang Fotostudio. During the filming of the latter, van der Keuken was himself the subject of a documentary film Leven Met Je Ogen/Living with Your Eyes.
  • 1998: Produced the film Last Words - My Sister Yoka /Laatste woorden: Mijn zusje Joke .
  • 2000: Produced two films, De grote vakantie/The Long Holiday ; and Temps/Travail.
  • 2001: Produced the film For The Time Being.
  • 2002: Onvoltooid tegenwoordig'' opens at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2002.

Exhibitions

Film retrospectives

Books of photographs

  • 1955: Wij zijn 17, a book of photographs of postwar Dutch youth taken by Van der Keuken when he was seventeen years old.
  • 1957: Achter Glas, the text of which was written by Remco Campert.
  • 1963: Paris Mortel.
  • 1980: Zien kijken filmen, a book of photographs, writings on film, and interviews in Amsterdam.
  • 1987: Abenteuer eines Auges, a book of photographs, writings on film and interviews at Hamburg, Germany.
  • 1991: After Image/''Nabeeld.
  • 1998: Aventures d'un regard, a book of photographs, films, writings and interviews, edited in collaboration with François Albéra, Cahiers du Cinéma, Paris, France.
  • 2000: L’Œil lucide/The Lucid Eye.
  • 2001: Bewogen Beelden.
  • 2010: Quatorze Juillet. This contains 32 photographs shot on Bastille Day in Paris in 1958 around the same time as a famous photograph from Paris Mortel'' of a couple dancing in the street.

Miscellaneous

Awards