Joris Ivens

The filmmaker Joris Ivens was the son of CAP Ivens owner of the CAPI photography shop in Nijmegen With the help of his fathers 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 avantgarde film As a technical consultant he was involved with the Filmliga and made important avantgarde 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