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Capi-Holland production. / Scenario by Joris Ivens and Mannus H.K. Franken. Cinematography by Joris Ivens. Edited by Joris Ivens. / Released 14 December 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Silent film with soundtrack.

Experimental.

Ivens' international reputation was created by this delicate, slyly humorous portrait of his native Amsterdam, a work that brilliantly straddles the divide between avant-garde and documentary filmmaking.

A brief poem.

This early dutch short film will confuse everyone who thinks cinema is a medium only fit to tell stories. Predating some of the most interesting --and lyrical-- documentaries of recent times, devoid of spoken words or any logical discourse, "Regen" offers a few, brief impressions of a rainy afternoon in Amsterdam; they do not form a sequence, they do not tell anything, but they definitely convey a sense of melancholy and quietness. If a conventional movie is the equivalent of a novel, or a short story, this should be regarded as a poem: it is concerned not with what's next, but with what's there, with perceptions of things.

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