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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		Rain Regen 1929 / The Netherlands / silent / B&W / 12 min / 35mm Directors, Script, Producers: Joris Ivens, Mannus Franken Script: Joris Ivens, Mannus Franken Camera, Editor: Joris Ivens Music: 1932: Lou Lichtveld, 1941: Hanns Eisler Production company: CAPI Amsterdam A day in the life of a rainshower. In this city symphony piece, Ivens captures Amsterdam's changing appearance throughout a rainshower. With poetry and a range of moods, sunny Amsterdam streets give way first to a few rain drops in the canals and then to pouring rain on windows, umbrellas, trams, and streets, until finally the weather clears and the sun breaks through once again. Although the action seems to take place all on one day, it took Ivens several months to shoot the film, for even in Amsterdam it doesn't rain every day. With The Bridge (1928), Rain established his reputation as an avant-garde film artist. In 1932 Ivens asked Lou Lichtveld, who also wrote the music for Philips Radio (1931), to help create a sound track for the film. In 1941 Rain inspired Hanns Eisler to compose his "Fourteen Ways to Describe Rain," an endeavor Eisler termed a "Film Music Project." 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