Henri Storck

Ostende 1930 (2004)

Film edited and directed by Luc de Heusch using images never used that Henri Storck turned in Ostend in 1930 while he was "cinégraphiste" of the city. ...

Henri Storck, ooggetuige (1986)

Robbe de Hert's Henri Storck, ooggetuige (1986) is a brilliant cinematic homage to the founding father of Belgian documentary cinema. Filmed around Storck's 80th birthday, the film eschews standard biographical formulas. Instead, De Hert crafts an intellig ...

Permeke (1985)

When Anna, a twenty-eight-year-old photographer, is put in charge of a report on the restoration works at The Ostend Museum of Modern Art, she discovers by chance five paintings signed Constant Permeke, whose power and mystery move and fascinate her.She de ...

Paul Delvaux or the Forbidden Women (1970)

The second part of "Le monde de Paul Delvaux" (1944/1946) ...

Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday (1967)

A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression. ...

Lords of the Forest (1958)

Documentary about the inhabitants, both human and animal, of the Belgian Congo. ...

Herman Teirlinck (1953)

A portrait of the belgian writer Herman Teirlinck by Henri Storck. ...

Smuggler's Ball (1952)

Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium, Holland and France. It is here that the worldly Pierre (J. P. Kieran) carries on a profitable smuggling operatio ...

The Open Window (1952)

One of the first European films commissioned by the countries that signes the Brussels treaty and filmed in the museums of Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Ghent and The Hague. The film shows, by means of 59 works of art, how painting discovered the lan ...

Rubens (1948)

This surreal abstract film falls into three sections, or movements, the first taking place on the ground, the second in the air and the third again on the ground. In the first movement various motifs or themes are introduced, which are again picked up and ...

The World of Paul Delvaux (1946)

This was Henri Storck first art documentary, a portrait about the painter, Paul Delvaux. ...

Pilgrimage to Hell (1946)

Biopic about Father Damian and his life and work on the island of Molokai. ...

Meeting of Artists (1945)

A family film, a short summer film, made to record the joy of being together. But what a family! Léon Spilliaert, Paul Delvaux, Edgar Tytgat and his wife Maria, Luc and Paul Haessaerts. A garden, some seats and a camera that films the group of friends. Th ...

Peasant Symphony (1944)

From 1942 to 1944, Henri Storck composed his Symphonie paysanne, in which he describes the day to day life and rituals of the farmers on the rhythm of the seasons. The film is a poem to nature, a lyrical masterpiece on life and death, on animals and plants ...

Vacances (1938)

This trailer for the pleasures of living between La Panne and Le Zoute testifies to the post-1936 euphoria that came with paid holidays, with sun and rest for everybody. ...

The Boss is Dead (1938)

A day-of record of 30 December 1938 as Belgium mourns Emile Vandervelde—"the Boss"—with massed corteges, banners, and eulogies for the Belgian Labour Party leader, statesman, and pillar of international socialism. ...

Houses of Poverty (1936)

Henri Storck's militant short on Depression-era Belgium, set in Walloon slums on the outskirts of a prosperous city. Staged vignettes expose substandard housing, overcrowding, and numbed survival through claustrophobic, frame-filling images; a coda on slum ...

L'île de Pâques (1935)

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 ...

Le Trois-Mâts Mercator (1935)

Cap au Sud (1935)

Borinage (1934)

Henri Storck and Joris Ivens' landmark of social documentary, blending staged scenes with locals and on-the-spot reportage to depict the 1932 miners' strike in Belgium's Borinage—evictions, hunger, and police repression—transforming outrage into a call ...

Zero for Conduct (1933)

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day. ...

Outside the Border of the Camera (1932)

A montage of images from newsreels; Storck's edit contains comical, poignant, even chilling juxtapositions. ...

Dainah the Mixed (1932)

After three weeks and a long, hot voyage across the Pacific, an ocean liner finally arrives at its destination, Ecuador. That evening, the event is marked by a masked ball and a magic show. ...

Story of the Unknown Soldier (1932)

Built from 1928 newsreels—the year 60 nations vowed to outlaw war—Storck's razor-edged montage mocks the era's self-congratulation by cross-cutting speeches and parades with portents of renewed violence: nationalism, colonial repression, police brutali ...

Romance on the Beach (1931)

On Ostend's North Sea shore, a sudden squall pushes two strangers under a bathing hut; when the sun returns, their flirtation blossoms into a playful, near-wordless seaside idyll of sand, surf, and shells. ...

Ostend, Queen of Seaside Resorts (1931)

A montage drawn from 35 reports Henri Storck filmed in 1930 as the city's official cinegraphiste. The film celebrates Ostend as a place of joy and vitality—by day and night a city of beaches and parties, of sports, games, and the special pride of belongi ...

Summer by the Sea (1931)

A lyrical promotion of Belgium's North Sea coast that alternates teeming promenades and playful beach games with elegant seafront vistas; shot by John Fernhout and set to Marcel Poot's score, with commentary by Éric de Haulleville. ...

Ieper - Middelburg - Arras (1931)

Documentary directed by Henri Storck. The film follows several groups of tourists on a visit to different sites in Belgium, the Netherlands and France. The groups tours with buses of the Ostend Department of British Travel (British Traval Office Ostend). ...

My Conversations on Film (2013)

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and ...

Les variations Dielman (2010)

Found footage using Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman. ...

Janssen & Janssens draaien een film (1990)

A documentary celebrating 25 years of flemish subsidised cinema. ...

Henri Storck, ooggetuige (1986)

Robbe de Hert's Henri Storck, ooggetuige (1986) is a brilliant cinematic homage to the founding father of Belgian documentary cinema. Filmed around Storck's 80th birthday, the film eschews standard biographical formulas. Instead, De Hert crafts an intellig ...

Ciné-mafia (1980)

Three pioneers of documentary filmmaking – Joris Ivens, Henri Storck, and the man behind the camera, Jean Rouch – recall the early days of the documentary genre and speak about their creative methods and sources of inspiration. This lively discussion b ...

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)

A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon. ...

Stars Meet in Moscow (1959)

Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum. ...

Zero for Conduct (1933)

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day. ...