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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		Indonesia Calling 1946 / Australia / B&W / 22 min / 35mm Director, Scipt, Editor: Joris Ivens Camera: Marion Michelle Commentary: written by Catherine Duncan, spoken by Peter Finch Production company: Waterfront Union of Australia Appointed by the Dutch government as Film Commissioner for the Dutch East Indies, Ivens was supposed to film the liberation of Indonesia, and then make educational and informational films there. However, when it became clear that the Dutch government would renege on its promise to make Indonesia independent, Ivens resigned his post, stating that the Dutch were not working for Indonesia's independence, but for its re-colonization. After his resignation he began working on Indonesia Calling, a film shot partially in secret which unabashedly demanded independence for Indonesia. The film's power is in its content rather than in its aesthetic achievement. 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