Johan van der Keuken

Johan van der Keuken was an innovative Dutch documentary filmmaker and photographer active from 1955 until his death at the start of the 21st Century on January 7, 2001 from prostate cancer. Based out of Amsterdam, he travelled the world making films and taking pictures on many topics, mostly for the Dutch television station VPRO. His work was exceptional in nearly every regard and his premature death was a real loss for the art of documentary filmmaking.

1955 We are 17, book of photographs

1957 Behind Glass, book of photographs, text Remco Campert

1956–1958 Studies at IDHEC film school in Paris

1957–1960 Paris à l'Aube in collaboration with James Blue and Derry Hall (10 min.) Exhibitions of photographs in Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, Biella and Roubaix

1960 Sunday (14 min.), camera: Prosper Dekeukeleire

1960–1961 Film critic for Haagse Post

1960–1963 A Moment's Silence (10 min.)

1962 Four films on Dutch artists: Yrrah (5 min.), Tajiri (10 min.), Opland (12 min.) and Lucebert, Poet-Painter (16 min.)

1963 The Old Lady (25 min.), camera: Prosper Dekeukeleire Paris Mortel, book of photographs

1964 Indonesian Boy (40 min.) Blind Child (24 min.) Sardegna, exhibition of photographs in Amsterdam

1965 Beppie (38 min.), camera: Ed van der Elsken and Johan van der Keuken Four Walls (22 min.) In the Nest with the Rest (8 min.)

1965–1966 Comprehensive exhibition of photographic work at various museums in the Netherlands

1966 Herman Slobbe/Blind Child 2 (29 min.)

1967 A film for Lucebert (22 min.) Big Ben/Ben webster in Europe (32 min.)

1968 The Spirit of the Time (42 min.)M The Cat (5 min.) The Street is Free (7 min.) Cameraman for Louis van Gasteren's Report from Biafra

1970 Velocity: 40–70 (25 min.), camera: Mat van Hensbergen BEAUTY (25 min.) Cameraman for Roeland Kerbosch's Libya in the Rush of Revolution

1972 Diary (80 min.), North-South Triptych, Part 1

1973 Bert Schierbeek/The Door (11 min.) The White Castle (78 min,), North-South Triptych, Part 2, in collaboration with Bert Schierbeek Vietnam Opera (11 min.) The Wall (9 min.) The Reading Lesson (10 min.)

1974 The New Ice Age (80 min.), North-South Triptych, Part 3 Filmmaker's Holiday (38 min.)

1975 The Palestinians (45 min.) Film retrospective at the Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal

1975 Springtime (80 min.)

1977 Maarten and the Double Bass (30 min.)

1978 Flat Jungle (90 min.), awarded the Josef von Sternberg Prize, Mannheim, Germany Filmretrospective at the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley

1980 The Master and the Giant (70 min.), in collaboration with Claude Ménard Seeing, Watching, Filming, book of photographs, writings on film and interviews, Amsterdam Photography 1955–1980, exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam Cameraman for Babeth Vanloo's Joseph Beuys at the Rotterdam Museum Filmretrospective at the Film Museum, Munich

1980–1981 The Way South (143 min.)

1981 Iconoclasm/A Storm of Images (85 min.) Brother Kodak (is watching you), projection of 70 photographs in the travelling exhibition "No Comment"

1982 First film concert with The Willem Breuker Collective in the series Willem Breuker meets Johan van der Keuken.

1984 Time (45 min.) Toys (4 min.)

1986 I love $ (145 min.), awarded the Josef von Sternberg Prize, Mannheim, Germany Wet Feet in Hong Kong (5 min.) The Unanswered Question (18 min.), camera: Melle van Essen and Niels van 't Hoff

1987 Abenteuer eines Auges (Adventures of an Eye), book of photographs, writings on film and interviews, Hamburg, Germany Photographs 1953–1986, exhibition at Centre Georges Pompidou, and film retrospective at Cinémathèque Française Central guest at the Flaherty Film Seminar, Ithaca, New York

1988 The Eye Above the Well (90 min.), awarded the Grand Prix, Brussels Film Festival Photographs 1953–1988, Centraal Museum, Utrecht. Johan van der Keuken receives the Dutch Cultural Award for his lifetime work.

1989 Cameraman for Noshka van der Lely's The Mountain World Non-World

1989–1990 The Mask (55 min.)

1990–1991 Face Value (120 min.), awarded the Dutch Press Prize

1991 After Image, book of photographs 1953–1991 Film retrospective, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon

1992–1993 Brass Unbound (106 min.) in collaboration with Rob Boonzajer Flaes

1993 Johan van der Keuken: Photographer and Filmmaker, exhibition at the Amsterdam Historical Museum Sarajevo film festival film (14 min.)

1994 Tony's birthday (9 min.) Lucebert, Time and Farewell (52 min.), awarded the Grand Prix, 5e Biennale Internationale du Film sur l'Art, Paris On Animal Locomotion (15 min.), in collaboration with Willem Breuker. Film retrospective at the European Documentary Filmfestival, Marseille Johan van der Keuken receives the Dutch Photography Award.

1996 Amsterdam Global Village (245 min.), awarded the Grolsch Prize at the Dutch Film Festival, First Prize at the Munich Festival and Award of the Art House Cinemas, France

1997 Amsterdam Afterbeat (16 min.) To Sang Fotostudio (35 min.) 'Body and City', Part One: A Day in La Paz, exhibition Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Lecture and presentation Film on Films with François Albéra, Documenta X, Kassel, Germany

1998 Last Words – My Sister Yoka (1935–1997) (50 min.-video) 'Body and City', exhibitions/installations/films, De Balie, Amsterdam; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Institut Néerlandais, Maison de l'Amerique Latine and Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing. Aventures d'un regard, book of photographs, films, writings and interviews, edited in collaboration with François Albéra, Cahiers du Cinéma, Paris

1999 Viennale Filmfestival, Vienna, Film and Photo-exhibition Filmretrospectives: French Institute Athens; 'E Tudo Verdade' Filmfestival, Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro; San Francisco International Filmfestival; San Francisco Cinemathèque; Pacific Filmarchive, Berkeley; Kino Arsenal, Berlin; Xenix Filmclub, Zürich One Eye at the Camera, The other of the world: Photographs and Films Exhibition at the Berkely Art Museum, University of California Guest at the Flaherty Film Seminar, North Carolina Johan van der Keuken receives the Persistance of Vision Award for his lifetime work at the San Francisco International Filmfestival Hightlights Flaherty Film Seminar, Museum of Modern Art, New York Body and City, exhibitions/installations/films at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona Body & City, New York pictures and installation at the VOX Centre in Montréal, Canada.

2000 The Long Holiday (145 min) Silver Spire Award, San Francisco International Film Festival Ecumenical Award of the Christian Churches, International Filmfestival, Berlin Special honorary Award, Documentary Filmfestival, Thessaloniki, Greece Bert Haanstra Award 2000, for lifetime-achievement, Amsterdam Temps/Travail (10 min) Video-installation in the exhibition "Le Temps, Vite", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Video-installation Temps/Travail, Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam Film retrospectives at the Centre Georges Pompidou , Paris; Spoutnik Cinéma, Geneva; Barcelona Cinematheque; Cinemateca Espanola, Madrid; Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto. The Lucid Eye, book of photographs

2001 Bewogen Beelden, book of photographs and text Lichaam & Stad: three parts at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Ohio For The Time Being (10 min) India, Bolivia en Temps/Travail november/december 2001, IDFA, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.

2002 Onvoltooid tegenwoordig opens International Film Festival Rotterdam 2002