Joris Ivens: Power and the Land

Shooting of one scene
(http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/huffman/frontier/power.html)
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A documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States.

(imdb)

Power and the Land, 1940
(video by PublicResourceOrg)

I consider Joris Ivens a great poet of the quotidian, but here comes another vein of him: a fascination for the landscape (visible even in his most political movies). I read some place that Ivens, who considered himself firstly a political author, was actually looking in all his films for the landscape. He was making prose without knowing it.



(Joris Ivens)