Joris Ivens
Date of birth: 1898-11-18
Place of birth: Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Known for: Directing
Also known as:
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.
Movie Credits
Havre
1986-06-04
Lili lives near the port of Le Havre. She is mourning her lover Pablo, who died leaving unfinished a
A Tale of the Wind
1989-03-19
It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tam
World Without a Game
1966-05-29
Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.
Een oude vriend van het Chinese volk
2008-08-01
The Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens (1898-1989) received the honorary title 'Old friend of t
Memória Cubana
2010-09-27
Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary sh
The People and Their Guns
1970-01-02
Directed by Joris Ivens and Jean-Pierre Sergent.
The Flaming Arrow
1912-01-01
At the age of 14 Joris Ivens was fond of Cowboys and Indians stories, so he decided to invent one hi
New Earth
1933-12-14
The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding a
Ciné-mafia
1980-07-09
Three pioneers of documentary filmmaking – Joris Ivens, Henri Storck, and the man behind the camera,
The Threatening Sky
1966-09-05
Pro-Vietnamese film created by Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens. This black and white film begins with an
Aah... Tamara
1965-01-01
Les années Juliet - Chronique d’un Filmeur
Film never finished. The raw footage consists of 4,370 meters of 16mm film and sound. The negatives,
Grierson
1973-09-13
A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the Nati