Near and Far: Two by Johan van der Keuken
Global Dialogues Program I
Supported in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council
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About This Screening
Having completed more than fifty films, Dutch filmmaker Johan van der Keuken (1938—2001) moved freely between photography and film, fiction and nonfiction. Always working as his own cameraman, with his wife Noshka van der Lely as sound operator, the pair traveled the globe to document life and culture in Holland, India, Egypt, as well as the US. The White Castle is the second part of van der Keuken’s North/South Triptych, which examines the relationship between rich, industrialized countries and poor, developing ones. This segment focuses on a community center in an impoverished area of Columbus, Ohio and a pair of factories in the Netherlands. In The Eye Above the Well, he focuses upon Kerala, a coastal province in southwestern India. Following a moneylender on his daily rounds, a group of dancing girls, and a village projectionist, van der Keuken creates a poetic and serene portrait of a culture and the daily life within.
Program Details
Wednesday April 21
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The White Castle
Netherlands, USA, 1973, 16mm, color, sound, 78 min.
Thursday Aprill 22
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The Eye Above the Well
Netherlands, India, 1988, 16mm, color, sound, 90 min.
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Feb. 24
Techniques of the Observer Mar. 9
Public Housing: Frederick Wiseman Mar. 25 + Mar. 27
The Texture of Memory: Phil Soloman Apr. 6 + 7
City Slivers & Fresh Kills: Gordon Matta-Clark Apr. 21 + 22
Near and Far: Two by Johan van der Keuken May. 4
Meditations on Revolution I-V: Robert Fenz May. 20 + 21 + 22
Borderlands: Three by Chantal Akerman