Joris Ivens

Birthday: 1898-11-18
Deathday: 1989-06-28
Birthplace: Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
Pueblo en armas
1989-03-19 A Tale of the Wind
1983-04-13 Borinage
1977-04-01 The Uyghurs
1977-04-01 The Kazakhs
1976-03-10 The Football Incident
1976-03-10 How Yukong Moved the Mountains
1976-03-10 The Pharmacy: Shanghai
1970-01-02 The People and Their Guns
1969-01-02 Some Evidence
1968-03-05 The 17th Parallel
1967-10-18 Far from Vietnam
1966-09-05 The Threatening Sky
1966-09-02 The Mistral
1966-04-29 Rotterdam-Europoort
1964-08-31 Valparaiso
1964-07-19 Le train de la victoire
1963-01-01 The Small Tent
1961-01-01 Cuba, a People Armed
1960-12-31 Italy Is Not a Poor Country
1960-01-02 Demain à Nanguila
1958-01-01 Letters from China
1957-11-20 The Seine Meets Paris
1957-03-08 The Wind Rose
1956-11-07 Bold Adventure
1956-02-10 Mein Kind
1954-09-17 Song of the Rivers
1952-01-01 Peace Race 1952
1951-08-20 Friendship Triumphs
1951-02-01 Peace Will Win
1950-01-01 The First Years
1949-01-01 Polsko
1946-08-09 Indonesia Calling
1943-01-02 Action Stations
1943-01-02 Corvette Port Arthur
1942-12-14 Our Russian Front
1940-10-01 Power and the Land
1939-03-07 The 400 Million
1937-07-10 The Spanish Earth
1933-12-14 New Earth
1932-12-23 Song of Heroes
1932-01-26 Creosote
1931-08-27 Philips-Radio
1930-12-31 Zuiderzee works
1930-01-04 We Are Building
1929-12-14 Rain
1929-03-03 Branding
1928-05-04 The Bridge
1928-01-01 Movement Studies in Paris
1912-01-01 The Flaming Arrow