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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		The Bridge De Brug 1928 / The Netherlands / silent / B&W / 11 min / 35mm Director, Script, Camera, Editor, Producer: Joris Ivens Production company: CAPI Amsterdam A vertical lift-bridge is the object of study in The Bridge. Ivens managed to produce a tremendously dynamic film based on what otherwise might appear to be a static object. "For me, The Bridge consisted of a laboratory of movements, tints, forms, contrasts, rhythms and the relationship between all these phenomena." The film was immediately recognized as a masterpiece by international critics and fellow filmmakers, and Ivens was instantly catapulted to fame as an avant-garde filmmaker. 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