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.
We Are Building
(Editor)
How Yukong Moved the Mountains
(Editor)
Far from Vietnam
(Director)
The Football Incident
(Director)
The 17th Parallel
(Director)
A Tale of the Wind
(Director)
Valparaiso
(Director)
We Are Building
(Director)
We Are Building
(Scenario Writer)
Creosote
(Director)
Creosote
(Editor)
Creosote
(Scenario Writer)
Polsko
(Director)
Rain
(Director)
The Spanish Earth
(Director)
The Spanish Earth
(Writer)
The Seine Meets Paris
(Director)
Indonesia Calling
(Director)
New Earth
(Director)
New Earth
(Writer)
Philips-Radio
(Director)
How Yukong Moved the Mountains
(Director)
Power and the Land
(Director)
Song of Heroes
(Director)
Borinage
(Director)
The Mistral
(Director)
The Mistral
(Scenario Writer)
The 400 Million
(Director)
The Bridge
(Director)
Movement Studies in Paris
(Director)
The Flaming Arrow
(Director)
Rotterdam-Europoort
(Director)
Bold Adventure
(Director)
The Pharmacy: Shanghai
(Director)
Song of the Rivers
(Director)
Song of the Rivers
(Writer)
Song of the Rivers
(Editorial Coordinator)
The People and Their Guns
(Director)
Some Evidence
(Director)
Demain à Nanguila
(Director)
Zuiderzee works
(Director)
The Uyghurs
(Director)
Zuiderzee works
(Writer)
Zuiderzee works
(Director of Photography)
New Earth
(Camera Operator)
Creosote
(Camera Operator)
We Are Building
(Camera Operator)
The Kazakhs
(Director)
Peace Will Win
(Director)
Peace Will Win
(Writer)
Rain
(Editor)
Rain
(Writer)
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
(Thanks)
The People and Their Guns
(Writer)
Borinage
(Writer)
The Wind Rose
(Director)
Indonesia Calling
(Writer)
Indonesia Calling
(Editor)
Power and the Land
(Writer)
The 400 Million
(Writer)
Song of Heroes
(Editor)
Philips-Radio
(Writer)
The Bridge
(Cinematography)
The Bridge
(Editor)
Movement Studies in Paris
(Cinematography)
Movement Studies in Paris
(Editor)
The Seine Meets Paris
(Writer)
Rotterdam-Europoort
(Writer)
The 17th Parallel
(Writer)
Action Stations
(Director)
Corvette Port Arthur
(Director)
Der Kampf
(Screenplay)
The Small Tent
(Director)
Letters from China
(Director)
Letters from China
(Writer)
Pueblo en armas
(Director)
Pueblo en armas
(Writer)
Cuba, a People Armed
(Director)
A Tale of the Wind
(Screenplay)
A Tale of the Wind
(Dialogue)
The Threatening Sky
(Director)
Know Your Enemy: Japan
(Co-Director)
Rain
(Director of Photography)
Le train de la victoire
(Director)
Italy Is Not a Poor Country
(Director)
Italy Is Not a Poor Country
(Editor)
The Kazakhs
(Writer)
Our Russian Front
(Director)
Branding
(Director)
Borinage
(Director of Photography)
Friendship Triumphs
(Director)
The First Years
(Director)
The First Years
(Editor)
Mein Kind
(Director)
The Wind Rose
(Producer)
Peace Race 1952
(Director)
The Flaming Arrow
(Scenario Writer)
Piling
(Director)
Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes
(Director)