The Bridge
Director Joris Ivens
Countries Netherlands
Duration 11 min
Synopsis
The idea for a subject came from an engineer who suggested that he look at the railway bridge over the Maas River in Rotterdam, which moved up and down to allow trains to pass over it and ships to pass beneath. For me the bridge was a laboratory of movements, tones, shapes, contrasts, rhythms and relations between all these... recalls Ivens in "The camera and I".
The idea for a subject came from an engineer who suggested that he look at the railway bridge over the Maas River in Rotterdam, which moved up and down to allow trains to pass over it and ships to pass beneath. For me the bridge was a laboratory of movements, tones, shapes, contrasts, rhythms and relations between all these... recalls Ivens in "The camera and I".