Joris Ivens

Joris IVENS (1898, the Netherlands - 1989, France) was a world famous Dutch documentary maker, who, as early as 1912, used a camera from his father's photography shop to make his first film: De wigwam (The Tipi). Virtually all major revolutions in the 20th century were followed by Ivens and his camera, which ensured repeated clashes with the authorities. Ivens was co-founder of the Dutch Filmliga and has made more then sixty films. Just before he died in Paris in 1989, Ivens was awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1988 for his complete oeuvre and he was made honorary citizen of his birthplace Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

Filmography

(selection) De wigwam/The Tipi (1912), De brug/The Bridge (1928), Regen/Rain (1929), Zuiderzee (1930), Philips Radio (1931), Komsomol (1932), Nieuwe gronden/New Earth (1933), Spaanse aarde/The Spanish Earth (1937), De 400 miljoen/The 400 Million (1939), Elektriciteit en het platteland/Power and the Land (1940), De Seine ontmoet Parijs/La Seine a rencontré Paris (1957), ...A Valparaiso/Valparaiso... (1963), Rotterdam Europoort (1966), Het verhaal van de wind/Une histoire du vent (1988)