Joris Ivens

Known for DirectingBorn 1898-11-18Died 1989-06-28Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Aah... Tamara

Pueblo en armas

My Child

Friendship Triumphs

The Threatening Sky

Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes

Midi Première

The People and Their Guns

Le train de la victoire

Demain à Nanguila

Italy Is Not a Poor Country

The First Years

The Pharmacy: Shanghai

Letters from China

Peace Race 1952

Rotterdam-Europoort

Grierson

Our Russian Front

Havre

The Mistral

The 17th Parallel

Far from Vietnam

How Yukong Moved the Mountains

The Football Incident

Rain

To Arms, We Are Fascists!

Valparaiso

The Seine Meets Paris

Action Stations

Corvette Port Arthur

Der Kampf

A Tale of the Wind

Zuiderzeewerken

Branding

New Earth

The Spanish Earth

Peace Will Win

Philips-Radio

Song of the Rivers

The Bridge

The Uyghurs

The Kazakhs

Borinage

Power and the Land

The 400 Million

The Small Tent

Cuba, a People Armed

Indonesia Calling