In 1945 playwright Catherine Duncan met Joris Ivens for the first time in Sydney. He asked her to write the film script for Indonesia Calling! The story of ‘The ships that didn’t sail’. In 1947 Duncan followed Ivens and Marion Michelle to Western Europe. They met again in Prague in 1948 where Duncan was working on the commentary for The First Years. Together with Marion Michelle she wrote the script for Tijl Uilenspiegel, after the version written by Jan de Hartog had been rejected. But Ivens would not use this version either.
With Michelle and Duncan together wrote ‘Working with Ivens’ and Duncan’s memories have now been described in the exhibition catalogue. Her material on Ivens, among other things documents she collected for her plan to write a biography of Ivens, she has now donated to the the Foundation.
Photographs of the Golden Lion ceremony at the Venice Film Festival; many folders with newspaper clippings from various countries dating back to the eighties.
Additions to her collection with photographs and documents from her private correspondence
The letters Joris Ivens wrote during the dying period of his younger brother Hans Ivens, Annabeth Ivens’ father. Copies of the letters from Jan Toorop to Hans Ivens from 1911.
Books and photographs including those of Joris Ivens in Spain, during Ivens’ return to the town of Fuenteduena where he had filmed Spanish Earth in 1936-37.
Documents and photographs by Machalz who made an episode in the series “Menschen im Pulsschlag der Zeit” in which Ivens tells about his life and work. The drawing Ivens made of the film trolley from 1928.
Videotapes with recordings of interviews with Joris Ivens from the seventies and eighties.
A glass sculpture about Joris Ivens and the wind, 1988
An art photograph of Joris Ivens’ grave in Paris
The documents for the preparation of the celebration of the centenary in Nijmegen 1998 with symposium, complete retrospective, celebration in the City Hall and exhibition. The material includes videotapes containing the interviews with Thea Nooteboomn-Ivens (Ivens’ sister), Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Marion Michelle, Claude Brunel, Jean Pierre Sergent and Jean-François Masson. In this foundation, lead by former alderman of culture Marja Alofs, co-operated: Museum Het Valkhof, Cinemariënburg, the European Foundation Joris Ivens, Cultural Centre De Lindenberg.
The photograph panels of the 1988 exhibition ‘Around Joris Ivens, world renowned film maker, 1898-1934’ held in the Nijmegen museum Commanderie van Sint Jan.
Photographs concerning Joris Ivens and China
