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Joris Ivens

Joris Ivens

The filmmaker Joris Ivens was the son of C.A.P. Ivens, owner of the CAPI photography shop in Nijmegen. With the help of his father’s employees, in the 1910s the young Joris Ivens made the short film De wigwam, with roles for his parents, brothers, and sisters. Ivens studied economics and photography. From the end of the 1920s, he was one of the vital figures in the world of Dutch avant-garde film. As a technical consultant, he was involved with the Filmliga, and made important avant-garde films like De brug and Regen. He also founded the film company Studio Joris Ivens, where young, enthusiastic filmmakers could find a home. The Studio was the cradle of experimental film in the early 1930s. Ivens developed into a political filmmaker, and with films like Borinage, Spanish Earth, and Indonesia Calling!, he grew into a leading documentary filmmaker.

On screen

  • Memória Cubana
  • A Tale of the Wind
  • Havre
  • Grierson
  • The People and Their Guns
  • World Without a Game
  • The Threatening Sky
  • Aah... Tamara
  • Skoop
  • New Earth
  • The Flaming Arrow
  • Les années Juliet - Chronique d’un Filmeur

Behind the camera

  • A Tale of the Wind
  • The Uyghurs
  • The Kazakhs
  • The Football Incident
  • How Yukong Moved the Mountains
  • The Pharmacy: Shanghai
  • The People and Their Guns
  • Meeting with President Ho Chi Minh
  • The 17th Parallel
  • Far from Vietnam
  • The Mistral
  • Rotterdam-Europoort
  • The Threatening Sky
  • Valparaiso
  • The Small Tent
  • Cuba, a People Armed
  • Carnet de viaje
  • Demain à Nanguila
  • Italy Is Not a Poor Country
  • Letters from China
  • The Seine Meets Paris
  • The Wind Rose
  • Bold Adventure
  • My Child
  • Song of the Rivers
  • Peace Race 1952
  • Peace Will Win
  • Friendship Triumphs
  • Indonesia Calling
  • Action Stations
  • Corvette Port Arthur
  • Our Russian Front
  • Power and the Land
  • The 400 Million
  • The Spanish Earth
  • The Struggle
  • Borinage
  • New Earth
  • Philips-Radio
  • We Are Building
  • Zuiderzeewerken
  • Rain
  • Branding
  • The Bridge
  • Movement Studies in Paris
  • The Flaming Arrow

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