Johan van der Keuken was born in Amsterdam in 1938. He began experimenting with photography at the age of twelve and published his first book of photographs in 1955, We Are 17. In 1956 he won a scholarship to IDHEC (Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques) in Paris. From then on, his career as filmmaker and photographer developed around the theme of "the perception of reality." Johan van der Keuken has written many film reviews and since 1977 has been writing a column called "From the World of the Self-Employed" for the Dutch film journal Skrien. He has taught seminars in Geneva, Hamburg, Brussels, Annecy, Beaconsfield, Stuttgart, Berlin, Ludwigsburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Mülheim, New York and, in 1998, at the European Film College, Denmark, and the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA. Unless otherwise specified, Johan van der Keuken is his own cameraman. Johan van der Keuken Bio-Filmography 1955 We Are 17, book of photographs 1957 Behind Glass, book of photographs, text Remco Campert 1956-58 Studies at IDHEC film school in Paris 1957-60 Paris a l'aube 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 1960-61 Film critic for Haagse Post 1960-63 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.) 1965-66 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.) 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 (North-South Triptych, Part 1) (80 min.) 1973 Bert Schierbeek/The Door (11 min.) The White Castle (North-South Triptych, Part 2, in collaboration with Bert Schierbeek) (78 min,) Vietnam Opera (11 min.) The Wall (9 min.) The Reading Lesson (10 min.) 1974 The New Ice Age (North-South Triptych, Part 3) (80 min.) Filmmaker's Holiday (38 min.) 1975 The Palestinians (45 min.) Film retrospective at the Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal 1976Springtime (80 min.) 1977 Maarten and the Double Bass (30 min.) 1978 Flat Jungle (90 min.), awarded the Josef von Sternberg Prize, Mannheim, Germany Film retrospective 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 Film retrospective at the Film Museum, Munich 1980-81 The Way South (143 min.) 1981 Iconoclasm/A Storm of Images (85 min.) Brother Kodak (is watching you), projection of 70 photographs in the traveling 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 1989-90 The Mask (55 min.) 1990-91 Face Value (120 min.), awarded the Dutch Press Prize 1991 After Image, book of photographs 1953-1991 Film retrospective, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon 1992-93 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 Film Festival, 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 (32 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'Amérique 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. Awarded the French Film Critics' Literary Award, 1999 1999 Time/Work (11 min.) Film retrospectives at the French Institute, Athens; E Tudo Verdade Film Festival, Saõ Paulo & Rio de Janeiro; San Francisco International Film Festival; San Francisco Cinémathèque; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Kino Arsenal, Berlin and the Xenix Filmclub, Zurich Photo exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum, University of California; and the Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco Johan van der Keuken receives the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award for his lifetime work at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Guest at the Flaherty Film Seminar, Ithaca, New York 2000 The Long Holiday, (142 min.)