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Wigwam (Shining Ray) The Bridge Breakers Rain We Are Building Philips Radio Creosote Komsomol (Song of Heroes) New Earth Borinage The Spanish Earth The 400 Million Power and the Land Indonesia Calling The First Years Song of the Rivers The Seine Meets Paris Before Spring Italy Is Not a Poor Country Travel Notebook A Valparaiso The Mistral Pour le Mistral Far from Vietnam The 17th Parallel How Yukong Moved the Mountains A Tale of the Wind Magnitogorsk, Forging the New Man		Before Spring 1958 / China / color / 38 min / 35mm Director, Script, Editor: Joris Ivens Camera: Wang De-cheng, Shi YiminÊ Commentary: He Zhongxin; spoken by: Xie Tian Production company: Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio, Beijing In 1958 Ivens was invited to China to make a film, and to act as a general consultant to the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio in Beijing. In addition, he taught at the Film Academy in Beijing. The same year he began a project called "Snow," which eventually turned into Before Spring, a film he made together with young Chinese filmmakers who were afforded the benefit of his vast experience. Before Spring is meant to be an apolitical and poetic portrait of Chinese life in relation to the land and the seasons. It starts with winter images of Inner Mongolia, which are followed by the awakening of spring and the Spring Festival. The people are depicted in relation to their work on the land. A TOPICS A Bird's Eye View of a Documentary Career HELEN VAN DONGEN Kees Bakker beforenext COPYRIGHT:Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee