Joris Ivens, Spanish Earth (1937) and the Rita Góbi Dance Company

“Eyes on Spain” Film Screening Series

February 20, 2016 6:30 PM –
February 20, 2016 8:00 PM
Spanish Earth Ivens
Still from the film “Spanish Earth” (1937) by Joris Ivens EYE Film Instituut Nederland
Spanish Earth Ivens
fotó / photo by Blinken OSA Archivum
Spanish Earth Ivens
fotó / photo by Blinken OSA Archivum
Still from the film “Spanish Earth” (1937) by Joris Ivens EYE Film Instituut Nederland
As the eighth and final event of the film series “Eyes on Spain: Screening the Civil War Memories”, accompanying the “Mexican Suitcase” exhibition, we screen the film “Spanish Earth” (1937) by Joris Ivens. The film will be introduced by a dance performance by the Rita Góbi Dance Company. The “Eyes on Spain” film screening series is a cooperation with the Spanish Embassy in Budapest and the Cervantes Institute.
Events
film screening and dance performance
Eyes on Spain. Screening the Civil War Memories

Embajada de España en Hungría Instituto Cervantes Budapest

The Mexican Suitcase
The Mexican Suitcase – Opening Event Trisha Ziff, The Mexican Suitcase (2011) Carolina Astudillo, The Great Flight (2014) The Visual Politics of Gesture Guernica on the Screen José Luis Cuerda, Butterfly (1999) Péter Forgács, El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War (2005) Carlos Saura, ¡Ay Carmela! (1990) – The Songs of the Spanish Civil War Joris Ivens, Spanish Earth (1937) and the Rita Góbi Dance Company
As the eighth and final event of the film series “Eyes on Spain: Screening the Civil War Memories”, accompanying the “Mexican Suitcase” exhibition, we screen the film “Spanish Earth” (1937) by Joris Ivens. The film will be introduced by a dance performance by the Rita Góbi Dance Company. The “Eyes on Spain” film screening series is a cooperation with the Spanish Embassy in Budapest and the Cervantes Institute.

Dance Performance by the Góbi Rita Dance Company
With Dániel Szabó, Mátyás Regyep, and Gellért Zsédey (trumpet), Lőrinc Kéringer (drums)
Music: Benjamin Britten, Ballad of Heroes (1939), ca. 18’

Spanish Earth (1937), 52’
Documentary directed by Joris Ivens, commentary: Ernest Hemingway, camera: John Fernhout (John Ferno), editing: Helen van Dongen; music: Marc Blitzstein, Virgil Thomson; English

The production company Contemporary Historians was set up to raise money for a documentary about the Spanish Civil War, filmed on the spot. With John Ferno and initially with John Dos Passos, who later left the crew and was replaced by Ernest Hemingway, Joris Ivens went to Fuenteduena, near Madrid, to film with the Republican armies at the front. It was to become one of the major films on the Spanish Civil War and one of the most important films in Ivens' career. As in many other films Ivens finds a balance between people's daily lives and their struggle to survive. The strong photography, mainly by John Ferno, combined with the decisive editing by Helen van Dongen and Ernest Hemingway's commentary, make the film's message universally powerful. In the first version the commentary was spoken by Orson Welles, but as a result of personal conflict with Hemingway, he withdrew from the project and Hemingway himself read the commentary.

Admission free. Seating is first-come first-served basis.
The film is screened in English.

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