In November 1999 we offer you again several activities. November 26 the exhibition Passages. Joris Ivens and the Arts of this Century will open in the new Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen. You can read more here about the concept of the exhibition. An extensive catalogue (in Dutch) will accompany the exhibition.
November 26-28 we organize, in collaboration with the Internationale Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft, a weekend under the title Eisler - Ivens / Film & Music. The collaboration between the composer Hanns Eisler and Joris Ivens will be the subject of a symposium, screenings and musical performances. You can find the programme here.
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29 November, during the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), we will present the book Joris Ivens and the Documentary Context; edited by Kees Bakker and published by Amsterdam University Press. It is a volume with articles by prominent film researchers and it also contains some unpublished texts by Joris Ivens. You can order it through Amsterdam University Press. |
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In November we will also present our Newsletter nr. 5, which will be online as soon as it's published. So stay tuned.
At the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF; Japan) held from 19 to 25 October 1999, 32 Joris Ivens films were shown. In 1989 Joris Ivens had been invited to the first festival in Yamagata, but unfortunately died in the summer of that year. In 1997 the film The 400 Million, showing the consequences of the Japanese attack on China in 1938, was shown in Japan at the YIDFF for the first time. This year the Festival offered with an extensive retrospective, apart from a cross-section of Ivens's oeuvre, also a view of seventy-five years of documentary history. More than 2500 people attended the screenings in this retrospective, which comprised a lecture and discussions every day. Besides supporting the programme, our Foundation also contributed to the composition of the catalogue, which gives extensive attention to Ivens's work. Already during the festival this catalogue sold out, but it will be reprinted, and you will be able to order it through the website of the YIDFF.
