Joris Ivens
Biography
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.
Acting (8 movies)
Directing (52 movies)
Far from Vietnam
1967
The Football Incident
1976
The 17th Parallel
1968
A Tale of the Wind
1989
Valparaiso
1964
We Are Building
1930
Creosote
1932
Polsko
1949
Rain
1929
The Spanish Earth
1937
Indonesia Calling
1946
The Seine Meets Paris
1957
New Earth
1933
Philips-Radio
1931
How Yukong Moved the Mountains
1976
Power and the Land
1940
Song of Heroes
1932
Borinage
1934
The Mistral
1966
The 400 Million
1939
The Bridge
1928
Movement Studies in Paris
1928
The Flaming Arrow
1912
Rotterdam-Europoort
1966
Bold Adventure
1956
The Pharmacy: Shanghai
1976
Song of the Rivers
1954
The People and Their Guns
1970
Some Evidence
1969
Demain à Nanguila
1960
Zuiderzee works
1930
The Uyghurs
1977
The Kazakhs
1977
Peace Will Win
1951
The Wind Rose
1957
Action Stations
1943
Corvette Port Arthur
1943
The Small Tent
1963
Letters from China
1958
Pueblo en armas
1961
Cuba, a People Armed
1961
The Threatening Sky
1966
Le train de la victoire
1964
Italy Is Not a Poor Country
1960
Our Russian Front
1942
Branding
1929
Friendship Triumphs
1951
The First Years
1950
My Child
1956
Peace Race 1952
1952
Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930
2010
Meeting with President Ho Chi Minh
1970
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Rain | 1929 | Writer |
| Zuiderzee works | 1930 | Writer |
| Philips-Radio | 1931 | Writer |
| New Earth | 1933 | Writer |
| Borinage | 1934 | Writer |
| Der Kampf | 1936 | Screenplay |
| The Spanish Earth | 1937 | Writer |
| The 400 Million | 1939 | Writer |
| Power and the Land | 1940 | Writer |
| Indonesia Calling | 1946 | Writer |
| Peace Will Win | 1951 | Writer |
| Song of the Rivers | 1954 | Writer |
| The Wind Rose | 1957 | Producer |
| The Seine Meets Paris | 1957 | Writer |
| Letters from China | 1958 | Writer |
| Pueblo en armas | 1961 | Writer |
| Rotterdam-Europoort | 1966 | Writer |
| The 17th Parallel | 1968 | Writer |
| Meeting with President Ho Chi Minh | 1970 | Writer |
| The People and Their Guns | 1970 | Writer |
| The Kazakhs | 1977 | Writer |
| A Tale of the Wind | 1989 | Screenplay |