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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		A Tale of the Wind Une Histoire de vent 1988 / France / color / 78 min / 35mm Directors: Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Script: Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan, Elisabeth D. Camera: Thierry Arbogast, Jacques Loiseleux Editor: Genevieve LouveauÊMusic: Michel Portal Producer: Marin Karmitz Production company: CAPI Films, La Sept Joris Ivens's last film, made with Marceline Loridan, is a testament to Ivens's own life and the changes that have occurred in the world during that time. After The Mistral (1965) this work is his second attempt to film the invisible, the wind. On location in China they try to capture the wind as a natural phenomenon, and as metaphor for the constant changes in culture and society. In 1988 the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where Ivens received the Golden Lion Award for his overall oeuvre. 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