These somber reflections are prompted by what I’ve been able to piece together about the extraordinary career of the Dutch-born leftist documentary and experimental filmmaker Joris Ivens (1898 ...

Dutch director Joris Ivens' enthusiasm for truth inspired him to travel thousands of miles to China in 1938, then engulfed in its fight against fascists, and risked his life recording gunfire ...

The autobiographical reminiscences of a Holocaust survivor are given surprisingly muted treatment in this feature by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, the widow of celebrated Dutch docu director ...

The Art of Rain' (Part 8). This series of variations composed by one of Bertolt Brecht's comrades links together short movements for flute, clarinet, violin or viola, cello and piano. "Anagramm ...

The good news: Ernest Hemingway is there to help. Senior Editor and Writer It is 1936, and Joris Ivens (Andrew Burnap) and Helen (Marin Ireland) are passionate filmmakers on the payroll of the KGB.

For copyright reasons this reading is not available as a podcast Joris Ivens was a pioneering documentary film-maker. Born into the photographic industry, Ivens, a contemporary of Eisenstein ...