With the recent release of the European Foundation Joris Ivens’ 5 disc-DVD set, Peter Hourigan takes the opportunity to look back at the career and work of one of the most famous of documentary filmmakers.
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The new feature documentary scheduled for release at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year, Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia, revisits the making of the 22-minute, 1946 documentary (Indonesia Calling) that Ivens made here in Australia. It seeks to distil aspects of the historical context of the events depicted in the film, and to [...]
Appointed Film Commissioner of The Netherlands East Indies on 28 September 1944, in September and October of the following year Joris Ivens directed Indonesia Calling (1946), a film which was anathema to Dutch colonial interests. Employed to produce propaganda endorsing Holland’s liberation of Indonesia from Japanese occupation and its post-war plans for limited Indonesian autonomy [...]
b. George Henri Anton Ivens b. November 18, 1898, Nijmegen, The Netherlands d. June 28, 1989, Paris, France Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources Joris Ivens made his first documentary films in the late 1920s, working alone with a hand-held 35 mm camera. In 1945 he commented that the time of the one-man documentary was over, [...]
