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Joris Ivens DVD collection wins Cinema Ritrovato DVD Award 2009
date: 7/8/2009
At the `Il Cinema Ritrovato` film festival, which focuses on the restoration of rare and presumably lost films (27 June / 4 July 2009, Bologna), the Joris Ivens DVD collection has been awarded with the prestigious Cinema Ritrovato DVD Award 2009.
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Joris Ivens DVD boxset winner of the
‘Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Award 2009’
At the film festival on film heritage and restored films, ‘Il Cinema Ritrovato’ in Bologna, the Joris Ivens DVD boxset won the prestigious ‘Best DVD’ award. An international jury of renowned film scholars, film journalists, critics and archivists nominated the production of the European Foundation Joris Ivens unanimously as ‘Best DVD’ collection, because of the extensive research that went into producing and restoring this collection. Now, for the first time since many decades, film classics like The Bridge and Rain can finally be seen in their most authentic versions after a thorough reconstruction and digital restoration. The jury urged to make 35 mm. prints of these versions for theatrical screenings.
‘This is a monumental film collection, covering the six decades of work of one of the world’s key documentary filmmakers, who as an artistic and political force covered war and peace on all continents and epitomized leftist art in the 20th century’, reads the Jury report about the Ivens DVD boxset. ‘This set contains impeccable versions of many important films that haven’t been seen in decades, even in archival screenings’. The jury (consisting of Alexander Horwath, Mark McElhatten, Paolo Mereghetti, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Peter von Bagh) recognized the very high quality in this year’s 30 finalists. Thirty DVD’s from 10 countries were nominated, among others with films of Akira Kurosawa, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Max Ophüls, Abel Gance, Nagisa Oshima en Carl Th. Dreyer.There were more risk-taking and specialized projects than ever before from both private companies and film archives, and in many cases from joint ventures between the two. It is very satisfying to see that so many rare films that could almost not be seen for decades, now become available for the DVD market and hopefully in theatrical screenings as well. An important part of this trend is the high degree of serious research accompanying DVD boxes nowadays, frequently with imposing books included in the same packages, like the book on Ivens accompanying the box. The Ivens box set was produced by the Ivens Foundation, in collaboration with CAPI Films in Paris and the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.
André Stufkens, director of the European Foundation Joris Ivens, said on 3 July 2009: ‘It’s fantastic that a small, but dedicated and independent foundation like ours has won this international award. Only through hard work, taking many risks and avoiding concessions was it possible to obtain the best quality and results. We rejected many scans of prints and even corrections, which didn’t match our ultimate goal: to produce the key films of Joris Ivens in perfect form. In the spirit of Joris Ivens, we kept on adhering to his tireless passion and cinematic ideals.
I want to thank the workers at the office and Bouke Váhl of the digital company Edit’B for their marvellous work. Without the generous support of the rightsholders and especially Marceline Loridan-Ivens, this result would never have been possible’.
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