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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 Mistral Pour le Mistral 1965 / France / B&W and color / 30 min / 35mm Director: Joris Ivens Script: Joris Ivens, René Guyonnet, Armand Gatti Camera: André Dumaître, Pierre Lhomme, Gilbert Duhalde Editor: Jean Ravel, Emanuelle Castro Music: Luc Ferrari Commentary: André Verdet, spoken by Roger Pigaut Producer: Claude Nedjar Production company: Centre Européen Radio-Cinéma-Télévision One of Ivens's most poetic works - it is his first attempt to film the wind. With beautiful photography, powerful editing, and a poetic commentary, the film tries to make the wind visible and tangible. It starts in black and white, switches to color partway, and ends in Cinemascope to illustrate the force of the coming mistral wind that blows in the south of France. It was difficult to find a producer for this film, for most people were rather reluctant to finance a film with an invisible main character. Finally Claude Nedjar agreed to produce the film, which despite many financial problems was finished in 1965. 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