The new Ivens magazine (issue 18) is out! It features articles with Paoli Taviani and Leonard Retel Helmrich, new revelations, and the discovery of unique photos, among others. The magazine can also be read online at www.ivens.nl.

Italian filmmaker Paolo Taviani knows exactly why the European Joris Ivens Foundation
is important in Nijmegen. He also recounts his experiences with Joris Ivens during filming. Both Taviani and Ivens are born Scorpios, go-getters, and perfectionists;

Unique photos of the young Ivens found.
Very few photographs by Joris Ivens that he took himself are known and have been preserved. Unique photographs from 1915 bearing his mark were found in the estate of one of his childhood sweethearts. At that time, his name was still George Ivens.

Revealing article about the clandestine role Ivens played in setting up a network of militant filmmakers throughout Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s.

Ivens' films are on permanent display at the Rijksmuseum (new 20th-century room), the Centre Pompidou (new modern art display, between Malevich and Tatlin), the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem (exhibition on Metropolises & Melancholy), Museum Dr8888 (interwar period exhibition), and the museum of modern art in Berlin, the Hamburger Bahnhof.

Interview with the Netherlands' best and most acclaimed documentary filmmaker of the moment: Leonard Retel Helmrich.

New books forthcoming about Joris Ivens, in Germany, Italy, Canada, and China. Book about Jan de Vaal and the history of the Netherlands Film Museum (1947-1987).



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