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GRAPHIC
DESIGN:
Susan B. Glattstein Design
PHOTO CREDITS 1: 1937©Hans Wegner Collection;
2: PHILIPS RADIO, 1931©Joris Ivens Archives/EFJI;
3: BORINAGE, 1933 ©Joris Ivens Archives/EFJI;
4: A TALE OF THE WIND, 1988©CAPI Films/Marceline
Loridan; 5: SONG OF THE RIVERS, 1954©Joris Ivens
Archives/EFJI; 6: THE MISTRAL, 1965©Léon
Herschritt, Joris Ivens Archives/EFJI
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THE
FILMS OF JORIS IVENS
PRESS
REVIEWS
SYMPOSIUM
and PHOTO EXHIBITION
NORTH
AMERICAN TOUR
CATALOG
Ivens’
international reputation was established with the
release of THE BRIDGE in 1928. Over the next several
decades, he became one of the most widely traveled
film directors, working in places as diverse as Eastern
Europe, Cuba, China, Mali, and Chile. Ivens received
scores of international prizes, including the World
Peace Prize (1955), Cannes Golden Palm (1957), Venice
Golden Lion (1988) and the French Legion d’Honneur
(1984).
Yet when Joris Ivens landed in New York on February
18, 1936, he was so broke he had to borrow $250 to
pass American immigration. With only one suit and
one pair of shoes he set foot in the New World. Later,
he wrote:
“…What
I don’t know is that this interlude is going
to take quite some time longer than I could think
when I disembarked. I’ll stay there for nine
years. In these nine years I’ll make THE SPANISH
EARTH, THE 400 MILLION (China), POWER AND THE LAND
and collaborate on a lot of other films. The Second
World War will break out, I’ll go to China, to
Hollywood, and–the beginning of a next stage–Indonesia.
My stay in the United States is more important than
people generally assume.”
EUROPEAN
FOUNDATION JORIS IVENS
EFJI was founded in 1990 by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
and is established in Ivens' birthplace of Nijmegen,
Netherlands, to maintain the reputation and promote
the life and work of Joris Ivens. Activities include
managing the Joris Ivens Archives to be accessible
to an international public, creating retrospectives,
publications, exhibitions, and promoting the art of
documentary films made from a humanitarian point of
view. For more information visit EFJI at www.ivens.nl
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