Johan van der Keuken (; 4 April 1938 – 7 January 2001) was a Dutch

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maker, author, and

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. 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'' (10 min.), in collaboration with James Blue and Derry Hall. * 1960: Produced the film ''Sunday'' (14 min.), using a "Prosper Dekeukeleire" camera. * 1960-1963: Produced the film ''Even stilte''/''A Moment's Silence'' (10 min.).The Museum of Modern Art to Present Retrospective of Filmmaker Johan Van Der Keuken.
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Screening the Past, issue 29, 18 November 2010. * 1962: Produced four films on Dutch artists: (1) ''Yrrah'' (5 min.); (2) ''Tajiri'' (10 min.); (3) ''Opland'' (12 min.); and (4) ''Lucebert, Poet-Painter'' (16 min.). * 1963: Produced the film ''The Old Lady'' (25 min.), using a "Prosper Dekeukeleire" camera. * 1964: Produced two films, (1) ''

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n Boy'' (40 min.); and (2) ''Blind kind''/''Blind Child'' (24 min.). * 1965: Produced two films, (1) ''Four Walls'' (22 min.); and (2) ''In the Nest with the Rest'' (8 min.). Co-produced ''Beppie'' (38 min.) with

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on camera. * 1966: Produced the film ''Herman Slobbe/Blind Child 2'' (29 min.). * 1967: Produced two films, (1) ''A Film for Lucebert'' (22 min.); and (2) ''Big Ben/Ben Webster in

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'' (32 min.). * 1968: Produced three films, (1) ''The Spirit of the Time'' (42 min.); (2) ''The Cat'' (5 min.); and (3) ''The Street is Free'' (7 min.); was cameraman for

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's ''Report from

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''. * 1970: Produced two films, (1) ''Velocity: 40-70'' (25 min.), using a "Mat van Hensbergen" camera; and (2) ''Beauty'' (25 min.). In addition, was cameraman for Roeland Kerbosch's ''

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in the Rush of Revolution''. * 1972: Produced the film ''Diary'' (80 min.), North-South Triptych, Part 1. * 1973: Produced five films, (1) ''Bert Schierbeek/The Door'' (11 min.); (2) ''Het witte kasteel''/''The White Castle'' (78 min.),Directors in focus. Living with your eyes: the world according to Johan van der Keuken.

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, June 2001. North-South Triptych, Part 2, in collaboration with Bert Schierbeek; (3) ''

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'' (11 min.); (4) ''De muur''/''The Wall'' (9 min.); and (5) ''Het leesplankje''/''The Reading Lesson'' (10 min.). * 1974: Produced two films, (1) ''De nieuwe kasteel''/''The New Ice Age'' (80 min.), North-South Triptych', Part 3; and (2) ''Filmmaker's Holiday'' (38 min.). * 1975: Produced two films, (1) ''The Palestinians'' (45 min.); and (2) ''Springtime'' (80 min.). * 1977: Produced the film ''Maarten and the Double Bass'' (30 min.). * 1978: Produced the award-winning film ''De platte jungle''/''Flat Jungle'' (90 min.). * 1980: Produced the film ''The Master and the Giant'' (70 min.) in collaboration with Claude Ménard; was cameraman for Babeth Vanloo's ''Joseph Beuys'' at the

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Museum. * 1980-1981: Produced the film ''The Way South''/''De weg naar het zuiden'' (143 min.). * 1982: Produced the film ''De beeldenstorm''/''

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/A Storm of Images'' (85 min.). * 1984: Produced two films, (1) ''Time'' (45 min.); and (2) ''Toys'' (4 min.). * 1986: Produced three films, (1) the award-winning ''I love $'' (145 min.); (2) ''Wet Feet in

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'' (5 min.); and (3) ''The Unanswered Question'' (18 min.), 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'' (90 min.). * 1989: Was cameraman for Noshka van der Lely's ''The Mountain World Non-World''. * 1989-1990: Produced the film ''The Mask'' (55 min.). * 1990-1991: Produced the award-winning film ''Face Value'' (120 min.). * 1992-1993: Produced the film ''Brass Unbound'' (106 min.) in collaboration with Rob Boonzajer Flaes. * 1993: Produced the film ''

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Film Festival'' (14 min.). * 1994: Produced three films, (1) ''Tony's birthday'' (9 min.); (2) the award-winning ''Lucebert: tijd en afscheid''/''Lucebert: Time and Farewell'' (52 min.); and (3) ''On

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'' (15 min.), in collaboration with Willem Breuker. * 1996: Produced the film ''Amsterdam Global Village'' (245 min.). * 1997: Produced two films, (1) ''Amsterdam Afterbeat'' (16 min.); and (2) ''To Sang Fotostudio'' (35 min.). 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 (1935-1997)''/''Laatste woorden: Mijn zusje Joke (1935-1997)'' (50 min.). * 2000: Produced two films, (1) ''De grote vakantie''/''The Long Holiday'' (145 min.); and (2) ''Temps/Travail'' (10 min.). * 2001: Produced the film ''For The Time Being'' (10 min). * 2002: ''Onvoltooid tegenwoordig'' (''The Present'') opens at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2002.

Exhibitions

* 1957-1960: Hosted photo-exhibitions in Amsterdam, Paris,

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, and

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. * 1965-1966: Hosted photo-exhibitions at various

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. * 1964: Hosted a photo-exhibition on ''

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'' in Amsterdam. * 1980: Hosted a photo-exhibition, ''Photography 1955-1980'', at the

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, Amsterdam. * 1981: Hosted ''Brother Kodak (is watching you)'', a projection of 70 photographs in the traveling exhibition, ''No Comment''. * 1987: Hosted photo-exhibition, ''Photographs 1953-1986'', at

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. * 1988: Hosted photo-exhibition, ''Photographs 1953-1988'', at Centraal Museum,

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, Netherlands. * 1993: Hosted photo-exhibition, ''Johan van der Keuken: Photographer and Filmmaker'', at the Amsterdam Historical Museum. * 1997: Hosted photo-exhibition, ''Body and City, Part One: A Day in La Paz'', at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. * 1998: Hosted exhibitions/installations/films, ''Body and City'', at (1) De Balie, Amsterdam; (ii) Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; (iv)

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, Paris; (v) Maison de l'Amerique Latine, Paris; (vi) Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; and (vii) Le Fresnoy National Studio of Performing Arts, (

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), France. * 1999: Hosted photo-exhibitions, (1) ''One Eye at the Camera, The Other of the World: Photographs and Films Exhibition'' at the

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, and (2) ''Body and City'' in

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; Hosted exhibitions/installations/films at (1) Viennale Film Festival,

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; (2) Centre de Cultura Contemporània de

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; and; (3) VOX Centre,

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, Quebec, Canada. * 2000: Hosted (1) two video-installation in the exhibition, ''Le Temps, Vite'' at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and (2) ''Temps/Travail'' at Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands. * 2001: (1) Lichaam & Stad: three parts at the

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, USA; (2)

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en Temps/Travail, November/December 2001, IDFA, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Film retrospectives

* 1975: At the

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, Canada. * 1978: At the

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. * 1980: At the Film Museum,

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. * 1987: At

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Central,

. * 1988: At the European Documentary Film Festival,

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. * 1991: Hosted the 1953-1991 film retrospective at

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. * 1999: At (1) French Institute,

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; (2) 'E Tudo Verdade' Film Festival,

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and

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; (3)

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International Film Festival, California; (4) San Francisco Cinemathèque, California; (5) Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California; (6)

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at the in

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, Germany; and (7) Xenix Filmclub

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; (8) Filmmaker Festival, Milan, Italy. * 2000: At (1) the

, Paris, France; (2) Spoutnik Cinéma

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, Switzerland; (3) Barcelona Cinematheque,

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, Spain; (4) Cinemateca Espanola, Madrid, Spain; and (5) Cinematheque

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, Ontario, Canada. * 2001: At (1) Museum of Modern Art; and (2) the

. * 2003: At Encuentros del Otro Cine, Documentary Film Festival,

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. * 2018: At the

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, Paris, France.

Books of photographs

* 1955: ''Wij zijn 17'' (''We are 17''), a book of photographs of postwar Dutch youth taken by Van der Keuken when he was seventeen years old. * 1957: ''Achter Glas'' (''Behind Glass''), the text of which was written by Remco Campert. * 1963: ''Paris Mortel'' (''Mortal Paris''). * 1980: ''Zien kijken filmen'' (''Seeing, Watching, Filming'', ), a book of photographs, writings on film, and interviews in Amsterdam. * 1987: ''Abenteuer eines Auges'' (''Adventures of an Eye''), a book of photographs, writings on film and interviews at

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, Germany. * 1991: ''After Image''/''Nabeeld'' (). * 1998: ''Aventures d'un regard'' (''Adventures of a Gaze'', ), a book of photographs, films, writings and interviews, edited in collaboration with François Albéra,

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, Paris, France. * 2000: ''L’Œil lucide''/''The Lucid Eye'' (). * 2001: ''Bewogen Beelden'' (''Moving Images'', ). * 2010: ''Quatorze Juillet'' (''July Fourteenth'', ). This contains 32 photographs shot on

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in Paris in 1958 around the same time as a famous photograph from ''Paris Mortel'' of a couple dancing in the street.

Miscellaneous

* 1982: Hosted first film concert with The Willem Breuker Collective in the series, ''Willem Breuker meets Johan van der Keuken''. * 1987: Was honorary guest at the Flaherty Film Seminar,

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. * 1997: Conducted a lecture and presentation on ''Film on Films'', with François Albéra, Documenta X,

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, Germany. * 1999: Was honorary guest at the Flaherty Film Seminar in

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, and

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, New York, USA.

Awards

* 1978:

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Prize,

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, Germany, for the film ''Flat Jungle'' (90 min.). * 1986: Josef von Sternberg Prize, Mannheim, Germany, for the film ''I love $'' (145 min.). * 1988: Grand Prix,

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Film Festival,

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, for the film ''The Eye Above the Well'' (90 min.). * 1988: (1) the Dutch Cultural Award for his lifetime work; and (2) the Dutch Photography Award. * 1990-1991: Dutch Press Prize, Netherlands, for the film ''Face Value'' (120 min.). * 1994: Grand Prix, 5e Biennale Internationale du Film sur l'Art, Paris, France, for the film ''Lucebert, Time and Farewell'' (52 min.). * 1996: (1) the Grolsch Prize at the Dutch Film Festival, Netherlands; (2) first prize at the Munich Festival, Germany; and (3) Award of the Art House Cinemas, France, for the film ''Amsterdam Global Village''. * 1999: Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award for his lifetime work at the

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, California, USA. * 2000: (1) Silver Spire Award, San Francisco International Film Festival; (2) Forum of New Cinema prize,

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, Germany; (3) Grand Prix UBS at

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for ''De grote vakantie''/''The Long Holiday''; (4) special honorary award at the Documentary Filmfestival,

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, Greece; and (5) Bert Haanstra Award 2000, Amsterdam, Netherlands, for lifetime achievement.

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Interview with Van der Keuken by Ron Burnett
{{DEFAULTSORT:Keuken, Johan Van Der 1938 births 2001 deaths Dutch documentary filmmakers Dutch male writers Dutch non-fiction writers Photographers from Amsterdam Golden Calf winners 20th-century non-fiction writers Male non-fiction writers