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Welcome to the official website of the European foundation Joris Ivens.
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| Doc`s Kingdom about Documentaries with archival footage-
6/17/2010
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In the Portuguese city of Serpa the 10th edition of the Documentary Seminar `Doc`s Kingdom` started on Wednesday 16 June. This years theme is focussing on the use of archival footage in documentaries. Filmmakers like Hartmut Bitomsky, Edgardo Cozarinsky and Susana de Sousa Dias will be present to debate about their own films. The Ivens Foundation is partner in this seminar.
Beyond the use of archival images, the notion of archive at the origin of the act of filming. Gathering filmmakers who have intensely worked with previously existent footage, and not forgetting that side of their activity, we propose the analysis of different paths which both enlarge and transform that binomial (image and archive). The idea of gathering, collection, inventory, as a return to an original state and, at the same time, as creative impulse. The archive, i.e., the (re)founding space.
The complete four days programme can be seen at: http://www.docskingdom.org/2010/2010index.html
In collaboration with Doc`s Kingdom, from 1st to 9th June, there will be six screenings at the Portuguese Cinemathèque on the theme `The archive image`.
The first issue of documenta (monthly publication by Apordoc) distributed as an insert with La Monde Diplomatique - edicao portuguesa is dedicated to Doc`s Kingdom.
Film theater at Serpa, Doc`s Kingdom 2009
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| Sculpture on Joris Ivens and the wind revealed in Paris-
5/27/2010
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Bryan McCormack, When Joris Ivens meets Hraesvelgr`, Parc de Saint-Cloud Paris
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On Saturday May 29 in Paris, the Minister of Culture, Frederic Mitterrand, in the presence of first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy will reveal a 12 meters high outdoor sculpture on Joris Ivens. The statue is the work of Irish artist Bryan McCormack.
The image is in particular a tribute to the film Pour le Mistral (1966) on the wind, a recurring theme in Ivens` work, from his earliest film in 1929 until his last film Une Histoire de Vent (1988). The title of the artwork "When Joris Ivens meets Hraesvelgr" also refers to the wind giant from Norse mythology. In the top of the image is a classic picture of a naked man seen with a playful globe in his hand and two enormous moving wings on his back. The symbolism of the sculpture also seems to refere to the nickname of Ivens “The Flying Dutchman ", the mythical figure of the rebel ship`s captain who tart the winds and storms of all oceans and is doomed forever to sail.
This is the third major outdoor sculpture, based on the work of Ivens. In Nijmegen in 1990 at the Joris Ivens square an 8 meter-high sculpture by Bass Maters was placed. In 2007 at the Midi Station in Brussels, a large sculpture of Emilio Menchero-Lopez in the form of a public megaphone appeared. This new sculpture is placed in command of the Centre des monuments nationaux in the Park Saint Cloud, where the famous landscape gardener of Louis XIV, Andre Le Notre in the 17th century created the avenues, lakes and fountains. The artist Bryan Mc Cormack has attached the following text to the artwork:
" In Nordic mythology, the giant Hraesvelgr, half man, half bird sits at the edge of this world making the wind blow, all the winds are its children sent out across creation by the flapping of its wings. The Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens made over 80 films between 1912 to 1988 and in particular «For The Wind» (1965). This sculpture is the fruit of their symbolic «meeting». It speaks of wind «of air in movement» that is dispersed, that is reunited, that warms and cools, that invites travel. The sculpture, like the giant, is immobile. However, it is the wind that creates the movement in the trees surrounding it. The reunion of movement versus immobility exists, but in a context that is opposite to the legend. The artist Bryan Mc Cormack was born in Ireland in 1972."
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| Demain a Nanguila at Festival de Cine Africano-
5/25/2010
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Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa that is held from 21 to 29 May is the festival for African cinema, this years focus is on the 50 years of independence celebrations in Africa. Demain a Nanguila Ivens film from 1960 about Mali `s independence was an important film and led the foundation of the Malian film art. For the occasion of this festival the European Foundation Joris Ivens scanned the film and the festival subtitles the film in Spanish
Nanguila Tomorow is a film about the independence of the Mali federation (Mali and Senegal), founded in april 1960, shown by telling the story of a boy, which returns to the city and to his family after having experienced turmoil and then becomes active in irrigating the fields.
For the complete program of the festival clck here
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| Doc`s Kingdom 2010-
5/10/2010
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DOC `S KINGDOM is the international seminar on documentary film from wich will take place in Serpa, Portugal from June 16 to 20. This year`s theme: is: The Archive-Image
Doc `s Kingdom, the international documentary seminar in Serpa, Portugal is always striving to have all the directors of the films present for public debates and panel discussions. Doc`s Kingdom 2010 will present several examples of footage films. The seminar will maintain distinctive elements, such as the promotion of contact between different generations of documentary filmmakers and documentary styles. The European Foundation Joris Ivens is a partner of Doc `s Kingdom. Visit the Doc `s Kingdom website (English) for the full program.
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| 50 years Mali, 50 years Demain à Nanguila-
4/29/2010
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Joris Ivens, filmstill from Demain à Nanguila (1960) Copyright: Sofracima, Paris
In may 1960 Joris Ivens filmed in Afrika Demain à Nanguila. Altough this is a rather unknown film, in Mali thefilm was a big success. It went in a screening van through the country. For many people in the villages it was the first time they could see a film on a big screen.
Joris Ivens, Filmstill uit Demain à Nanguila (1960). Copyright: Sofracima, Parijs.
With this film that is recognized as an African film instead of a western film the national film culture of Mali has taken a start. It motivated the new government to put up a film production company.
Because this year (2010) it’s 50 years ago that Mali, along with Nigeria and 15 other African countries, achieved independence from colonial rule. And because it’s 50 years ago that Ivens made the film Demain a Nanguila in Mali, the European Foundation Joris Ivens scanned and digitized the 35 mm film. In Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands screenings of the film will be held during this year at celebrations of independence .
The ancient Islamic kingdom of Mali with famous cities like Timboektoe and Djenné, once known of his wealth is know one of the poorest countries in the world. At the end of the 19th century the French occupied the country after which it was called French Sudan. When Ivens got the assignment for this film French Sudan was independent but after the film the country split in two: Senegal and Mali became two independent countries. Moussa Sidibé how at first worked as translator for Ivens was asked by Ivens to play the main character. Moussa Sidibé liked it so much that he later grew out to be one of the most famous filmmakers in the country.
For more background information see the article of Ian Mundell in Ivens Magazine 11 of november 2005 on pag. 22-25.
For screenings around Europe see the calendar on our website.
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