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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.

Et billede af Joris Ivens

Directing

1912

[ ] The Flaming Arrow (Director)

1928

[ ] The Bridge (Director)
[ ] Movement Studies in Paris (Director)

1929

[ ] Rain (Director)
[ ] Branding (Director)

1930

[ ] We Are Building (Director)
[ ] Zuiderzee works (Director)

1931

[ ] Philips-Radio (Director)

1932

[ ] Creosote (Director)
[ ] Song of Heroes (Director)

1933

[ ] New Earth (Director)

1934

[ ] Borinage (Director)

1937

[ ] The Spanish Earth (Director)

1939

[ ] The 400 Million (Director)

1940

[ ] Power and the Land (Director)

1942

[ ] Our Russian Front (Director)

1943

[ ] Action Stations (Director)
[ ] Corvette Port Arthur (Director)

1945

[ ] Know Your Enemy: Japan (Co-Director)

1946

[ ] Indonesia Calling (Director)

1949

[ ] Polsko (Director)

1950

[ ] The First Years (Director)

1951

[ ] Peace Will Win (Director)
[ ] Friendship Triumphs (Director)

1952

[ ] Peace Race 1952 (Director)

1954

[ ] Song of the Rivers (Director)

1956

[ ] Bold Adventure (Director)
[ ] My Child (Director)

1957

[ ] The Seine Meets Paris (Director)
[ ] The Wind Rose (Director)

1958

[ ] Letters from China (Director)

1960

[ ] Demain à Nanguila (Director)
[ ] Italy Is Not a Poor Country (Director)

1961

[ ] Pueblo en armas (Director)
[ ] Cuba, a People Armed (Director)

1963

[ ] The Small Tent (Director)

1964

[ ] Valparaiso (Director)
[ ] Le train de la victoire (Director)

1966

[ ] The Mistral (Director)
[ ] Rotterdam-Europoort (Director)
[ ] The Threatening Sky (Director)

1967

[ ] Far from Vietnam (Director)

1968

[ ] The 17th Parallel (Director)

1969

[ ] Some Evidence (Director)

1970

[ ] The People and Their Guns (Director)
[ ] Meeting with President Ho Chi Minh (Director)
[ ] Hommage à Ho Chi Minh (Director)

1976

[ ] The Football Incident (Director)
[ ] How Yukong Moved the Mountains (Director)
[ ] The Pharmacy: Shanghai (Director)

1977

[ ] The Uyghurs (Director)
[ ] The Kazakhs (Director)

1989

[ ] A Tale of the Wind (Director)

2010

[ ] Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930 (Director)

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[ ] Piling (Director)

Editing

1928

[ ] The Bridge (Editor)
[ ] Movement Studies in Paris (Editor)

1929

[ ] Rain (Editor)

1930

[ ] We Are Building (Editor)

1932

[ ] Creosote (Editor)
[ ] Song of Heroes (Editor)

1946

[ ] Indonesia Calling (Editor)

1950

[ ] The First Years (Editor)

1954

[ ] Song of the Rivers (Editorial Coordinator)

1960

[ ] Italy Is Not a Poor Country (Editor)

1970

[ ] Meeting with President Ho Chi Minh (Editor)

1976

[ ] How Yukong Moved the Mountains (Editor)

Writing

1912

[ ] The Flaming Arrow (Scenario Writer)

1929

[ ] Rain (Writer)

1930

[ ] We Are Building (Scenario Writer)
[ ] Zuiderzee works (Writer)

1931

[ ] Philips-Radio (Writer)

1932

[ ] Creosote (Scenario Writer)

1933

[ ] New Earth (Writer)

1934

[ ] Borinage (Writer)

1936

[ ] Der Kampf (Screenplay)

1937

[ ] The Spanish Earth (Writer)

1939

[ ] The 400 Million (Writer)

1940

[ ] Power and the Land (Writer)

1946

[ ] Indonesia Calling (Writer)

1951

[ ] Peace Will Win (Writer)

1954

[ ] Song of the Rivers (Writer)

1957

[ ] The Seine Meets Paris (Writer)

1958

[ ] Letters from China (Writer)

1961

[ ] Pueblo en armas (Writer)

1966

[ ] The Mistral (Scenario Writer)
[ ] Rotterdam-Europoort (Writer)

1968

[ ] The 17th Parallel (Writer)

1970

[ ] The People and Their Guns (Writer)
[ ] Meeting with President Ho Chi Minh (Writer)

1977

[ ] The Kazakhs (Writer)

1989

[ ] A Tale of the Wind (Screenplay)
[ ] A Tale of the Wind (Dialogue)

Camera

1929

[ ] Rain (Director of Photography)

1930

[ ] Zuiderzee works (Director of Photography)
[ ] We Are Building (Camera Operator)

1932

[ ] Creosote (Camera Operator)

1933

[ ] New Earth (Camera Operator)

1934

[ ] Borinage (Director of Photography)

1939

[ ] The 400 Million (Director of Photography)

Crew

1928

[ ] The Bridge (Cinematography)
[ ] Movement Studies in Paris (Cinematography)

1929

[ ] Branding (Cinematography)

1962

[ ] To Arms, We Are Fascists! (Thanks)

Production

1957

[ ] The Wind Rose (Producer)

Actor

1912

[ ] The Flaming Arrow (Flaming Arrow)

1933

[ ] New Earth (????)

1965

[ ] Aah... Tamara (????)

1966

[ ] World Without a Game (Himself)
[ ] The Threatening Sky (Interviewer)

1970

[ ] The People and Their Guns (????)

1973

[ ] Grierson (Self)

1980

[ ] Ciné-mafia (????)

1986

[ ] Havre (le docteur Digitalis)

1989

[ ] A Tale of the Wind (Self)

2008

[ ] Een oude vriend van het Chinese volk (????)

2010

[ ] Memória Cubana (Self (archive footage))

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[ ] Les années Juliet - Chronique d’un Filmeur (Self)