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“As a filmmaker, I think we have to venture into the no man’s land that lies between reality and imagination, between documentation and fiction…. Filming the impossible is what's best in life.'”—Joris Ivens
“Simultaneously a documentary and a fantasy for all 78 minutes of its running time, [Une Histoire de vent] is also a sublime auteurist statement starring its auteur” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). Universally praised and beloved, Ivens’ swan song, made in collaboration with his longtime partner Marceline Loridan (from Chronique d’un été), is a personal travelogue through the annals of time, cinema history, the Gobi desert and to the Great Wall of China in an attempt to film the wind. Shot between 1984 and 1988 when Ivens was in his late eighties, the film exudes a quiet knowing that comes with age—as well as his rare ability to tell the most poignant and persuasive of stories through non-narrative images. “It is a poetic and witty farewell, yet it also stands on its own as a hopeful commentary on the importance of art and culture…working in a no man’s land between Lumière and Méliès, between the two great early filmmakers who defined realism and fantasy…an eloquent last word from an important artist” (The New York Times). Essential viewing, Une Histoire de vent is “…one of the most important films of recent years; [it] forms a hinge between past and future” (Peter Green, Sight & Sound).
Rated G
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