John Fernhout

Promotional film (70mm) from 1967 made by John Fernhout. The film shows the characteristic Dutch landscape that was portrayed and made famous by the great 17th century Dutch painters.

Wehrhafte Schweiz is a Swiss Army propaganda film, made for the Expo 64 national exhibition in the then-prevailing spirit of geistige Landesverteidigung, "cultural national defense". It portrays the Swiss Army fighting against an unnamed, unseen enemy, using heavy weapons such as flamethrowers, artillery, tanks and bomber aircraft. After the enemy is repelled, the film closes with idyllic shots of beautiful Swiss landscapes. The 20-minute film was shot using the latest action film techniques in the Cinerama format on expensive MCS-70 Super Panorama 70mm stock. (Wikipedia)

Wehrhafte Schweiz is a Swiss Army propaganda film, made for the Expo 64 national exhibition in the then-prevailing spirit of geistige Landesverteidigung, "cultural national defense". It portrays the Swiss Army fighting against an unnamed, unseen enemy, using heavy weapons such as flamethrowers, artillery, tanks and bomber aircraft. After the enemy is repelled, the film closes with idyllic shots of beautiful Swiss landscapes. The 20-minute film was shot using the latest action film techniques in the Cinerama format on expensive MCS-70 Super Panorama 70mm stock. (Wikipedia)

The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Japanese. Civilian refugees walk, stumble, crawl to escape the destruction of their cities... While in the China of tradition, water buffalo still work the paddies and camels cross the desert, modern China is now a republic founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with modern schools, heavy industry, large engineering projects... The government of Chiang Kai-shek resists the Japanese invasion from the coast. Madame Chiang receives a cheque from the U.S.A. for war relief. War production continues in distant villages safe from the grasp of the Japanese. With modern weapons the Chinese are pursuing their struggle behind enemy lines. And still their opponent persists in his reprisal bombings of civilian targets. "Will these people win?"

A propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces who were backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The film would have been seen by those making it as a documentary.

The first Easter Island documentary, filmed in 1935 when the Belgian naval ship Mercator came to collect Drs. Henri Lavacherry and Alfred Métraux, who had arrived six months before to carry out archaeological and ethnological work. The film, directed with melodramatic gusto and featuring a full orchestral score by Maurice Jaubert (who also did the narration), shows islanders, the monuments, and a public dance. A theme of decay and decadence characterizes the film, the motif portrayed gruesomely by extensive close-ups of the inhabitants of the leper colony there at the time. The film suited a romantic image of a mysterious lost civilization, the survivors eking out a pitiful existence on a barren rock. (Grant McCall)

The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people of the Netherlands struggle and succeed in building a breaker, thereby eliminating the wild inland body of water once known as the Zuider Zee (now called Ijsselmeer).

크레오소트는 타르를 가공해 만드는 목재보존재로서 산업 전반에 널리 쓰이는 중요한 제품이다. 당시 국제 크레오소트 제작자 연합이 이벤스에게 의뢰해 만들어진 ‘홍보 영화’로, 감독은 크레오소트 제작 과정을 순차적으로 보여주는 한편 크레오소트가 어떻게 활용되는지 소비에트 스타일의 몽타주와 함께 흥미진진하게 그린다. 에는 폴란드, 벨기에, 프랑스 등 다양한 국가의 노동자들이 담겼으며, 이 과정에서 노동자들의 국제 연대를 바라보는 이벤스의 정치적 관점을 간접적으로 읽을 수 있다. 크레오소트 제작을 과학적으로 설명하기 위해 이용한 애니메이션 기법도 주요 감상 포인트다.

A presentation of the benefits and charms of the Belgian coast.

A commissioned documentary short showing the effort over several years to close off a shallow bay in the northwest Netherlands from the rest of the North Sea by engineering a dyke,with an area later turned into land after drainage.

를 포함한 20년대 작품들은 많은 주목을 받았고, 네덜란드 건설 노조의 교육 부서는 요리스 이벤스에게 의 제작을 제안한다. 노조 설립 10주년을 기념하는 한편 노동자들의 노조 가입을 독려하기 위해 만들어진 이 작품은 암스테르담을 일터 삼아 활기차게 일하는 노동자들의 모습과, 이들의 손을 통해 만들어지는 도시의 새로운 풍경을 생생하게 보여준다. 지금까지 독립적으로 영화를 만들어 온 이벤스가 본격적으로 영화 감독이란 ‘직업’을 시작하게 한 작품으로 평가 받는다.