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Wigwam (Shining Ray)
De Wigwam (Brandende Straal)



1912 / The Netherlands / silent / B&W / 8 min / 35mm

Director, Script: Joris Ivens


At the age of 13 Ivens was so fond of cowboy and Indian stories that he decided to invent one himself. He wrote a script and then borrowed a camera from his father's shop. This became his first film, Wigwam, featuring his own family as the cast. Black Eagle, a bad Indian, kidnaps the daughter of a farm family. Flaming Arrow, played by the young Ivens, rescues the child from the kidnapper and returns her to her family. What ending could be more fitting than smoking a peace pipe?

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