Johan van der Keuken

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Johan van der Keuken (1965)

Johan van der Keuken (born April 4, 1938 in Amsterdam ; † January 7, 2001 there ) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and photographer.

Life

Van der Keuken studied from 1956 to 1958 in Paris at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). As a director (and mostly also a cameraman) he made 55 films, including a four-hour portrait of his hometown ("Amsterdam Global Village"), but also two films about blind children ("Blind Kind" and "Herman Slobbe / Blind Kind II") and a portrait of the jazz musician Ben Webster, who last lived in the Netherlands . Many of his films have been produced for the Dutch public service broadcaster , mainly for VPRO , but also for the Dutch Ministry of Culture. His last film "De grote Vakantie" ("The Long Vacation") was made on the occasion of a trip to Bhutanafter his doctor told him he would only live a few more years due to cancer. This film is about the change of time and space through an illness, but also about the search for meaning and the hope for a big connection between all things.

He owed his reputation as an internationally outstanding documentary filmmaker to a complex montage technique. Since 1982 he has also given film concerts with the Willem Breuker Kollektief .

Prizes and awards

  • 1986 - Josef von Sternberg Prize of the Mannheim International Film Week for I love dollars
  • 1978 - Josef von Sternberg Prize for De platte jungle
  • 1988 - Golden Calf / Culture Award (Dutch film award for his work)
  • 1988 - Grand Prix of the Brussels Film Festival for Het Oog boven de Put
  • 1991 - Golden Calf / Best Long Documentary at the Dutch Film Festival for Face Value
  • 1991 - Prize of the Dutch Film Critics for Face Value
  • 1994 - Grand Prize of the Biennale Internationale du Film sur l'Art (Paris) for Lucebert, tijd en afscheid
  • 1994 - Golden Calf / Best Short Documentary at the Dutch Film Festival for Lucebert, tijd en afscheid
  • 1994 - Capi-Lux Alblas Prize for the photographic work
  • 1996 - Prijs van de Cinémas de Recherche
  • 1996 - Grolsch Prijs at the Dutch Film Festival for Amsterdam Global Village
  • 1997 - First Prize of the Munich Film Festival for Amsterdam Global Village
  • 1997 - Cinema Recherche Award at the Marseille Festival of Documentary for Amsterdam Global Village
  • 1999 - Prix Literaire of the French film criticism
  • 1999 - Persistence of Vision Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival for Lifetime Achievement
  • 1999 - Silver Spire Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival for De Grote Vakantie
  • 2000 - Bert Haanstra Oeuvre Prize
  • 2000 - Ecumenical Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival
  • 2000 - Berlinale Prize
  • 2000 - Honorary Award of the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
  • 2000 - Grand Prix of Nyon Visions du Réel for De Grote Vakantie

Filmography

  • 1957 - Paris a l'Aube
  • 1960 - Een zondag (A Sunday)
  • 1960 - Even stilte (A moment of silence)
  • 1962 - Lucebert, Dichter- schilder (Lucebert, Dichter-Maler) About Lucebert .
  • 1962 - Yrrah About the cartoonist Yrrah .
  • 1962 - Tajiri About the painter and sculptor Shinkichi Tajiri .
  • 1962 - Opland About the draftsman Opland .
  • 1963 - De oude dame (The old lady)
  • 1964 - Indian juggling (Indonesian boy)
  • 1964 - Blind Kind (Blind Child)
  • 1965 - Beppie
  • 1965 - Vier muren (Four Walls)
  • 1965 - In 't nest met de rest (Into the nest with the rest)
  • 1966 - Herman Slobbe / Blind Kind II (Herman Slobbe / Blindes Kind II)
  • 1967 - Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe
  • 1967 - Een film voor Lucebert (A film for Lucebert) About Lucebert.
  • 1968 - De tijdgeest (The Zeitgeist)
  • 1968 - De poes (The Cat)
  • 1968 - De straat is vrij (The road is free)
  • 1970 - De snelheid 40/70 (Velocity 40/70)
  • 1970 - Beauty (Private Dick)
  • 1972 - Dagboek (diary) First part of the north-south triptych.
  • 1973 - Vietnam opera (Vietnam Opera)
  • 1973 - De muur (The Wall)
  • 1973 - Het Witte Kasteel (The White Castle) Second part of the north-south triptych.
  • 1973 - Het leesplankje (The reading hour )
  • 1973 - Bert Schierbeek / De deur (Bert Schierbeck / Die Tür)
  • 1974 - Vakantie van een filmer (A filmmaker's vacation)
  • 1974 - De nieuwe ijstijd (The New Ice Age) Third part of the north-south triptych.
  • 1975 - De Palestijnen (The Palestinians)
  • 1976 - Voorjaar (spring)
  • 1976 - Doris Schwert / Frankfurt decoupling from Vorjaar .
  • 1977 - Maarten en de contra-bas (Marten and the double bass) About the double bass player Maarten Altena .
  • 1978 - De platte jungle (The flat jungle)
  • 1980 - De meester en de reus (The Master and the Giant)
  • 1980 - Amsterdam Kinkerstraat 30 April 1980
  • 1981 - De weg naar het zuiden (The way to the south)
  • 1982 - De beeldenstorm (The Iconoclasm )
  • 1983 - De tijd (The Time)
  • 1984 - Speelgoed (toys)
  • 1986 - I love dollars
  • 1986 - The unanswered question
  • 1986 - Natte voeten in Hong Kong (Wet Feet in Hong Kong)
  • 1988 - Het oog boven de put (The eye above the fountain)
  • 1989 - Homage for Hubert Bals
  • 1990 - Het masker (The Mask)
  • 1991 - Face value
  • 1993 - Sarajevo Film Festival Film
  • 1993 - Bewogen koper (Moving buyer)
  • 1994 - Hexagon - On animal location
  • 1994 - Lucebert, tijd en afscheid (Lucebert, Time and Farewell) About Lucebert.
  • 1996 - Amsterdam global village
  • 1997 - Amsterdam afterbeat
  • 1997 - To Sang photo studio
  • 1998 - Laatste woorden: Mijn zuje Joke (1935-1997) (Last words: My sister Joke)
  • 2000 - Napels
  • 2000 - Temps / Travail
  • 2000 - De Grote Vakantie (The Big Holidays)
  • 2002 - Onvoltooid tegenwoordig fragment.

literature

  • Johan van der Keuken: Adventures of an Eye - Films Photos Texts . University of Fine Arts, material 69 , Hamburg 1987.
  • Johan van der Keuken: Adventures of an Eye - Films Photos Texts . 2., verb. and exp. Edition. Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1992. ISBN 3-87877-404-4 .
  • Johan van der Keuken: Paris mortel retouché . Van Zoetendaal Publishers, Amsterdam 2013. ISBN 978-90-72532-21-3 . (Reprint of the book from 1963 as well as the draft and various additional photographs.)

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personal data
SURNAME Keuken, Johan van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch documentary filmmaker and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2001
Place of death Amsterdam