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Joris Ivens (18 November 1898, Nijmegen – 28 June 1989, Paris) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.
Born Georg Henri Anton Ivens into a wealthy family, Ivens went to work in one of his father's photo supply shops and from there developed an interest in film. He completed his first film at 13; in college he studied economics with the goal of continuing his father's business, but an interest in class issues distracted him from that path. He met photographer Germaine Krull in Berlin in 1923, and entered into a marriage of convenience with her between 1927 and 1943 so that Krull could hold a Dutch passport and could have a "veneer of married respectability without sacrificing her autonomy."
Originally his work focused on technique - some argue that it had that focus at the cost of relevance, especially in Rain (Regen, 1929), a 10-minute short filmed over 2 years which features impressive cinematography and a number of 'characters' but no information about them aside from what was visible, and in The Bridge (De Brug, 1928), which showed a frank admiration of engineering and also featured a number of "characters" but again did not give any information about them. Around this time he was involved in the creation of the Filmliga based in Amsterdam which drew foreign filmmakers to Holland such as Alberto Cavalcanti, René Clair, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Dziga Vertov who also became his friends.
Regen | Rain (1929) | Joris Ivens - Music by Hanns Eisler, 1941
La Seine a recontré Paris Joris Ivens, 1957
a valparaiso - Joris Ivens
Joris Ivens - Regen (1929).avi
Joris ivens the bridge
Nieuwe gronden / New Earth (Joris Ivens, 1933) (En subs)
Une Histoire De Vent - 1988 - Joris Ivens
Joris Ivens - ...à Valparaiso - 1963 HQ
Indonesia calling — Joris Ivens, 1946
Philips film - Joris Ivens - 1931
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Genres: Documentary,