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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		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? 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