Movies: Henri Storck
- 1976
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)
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A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart....
- 1934
Borinage (1934)
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Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage....
- 1932
Dainah the Mixed (1932)
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Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer onboard who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation. When she disappears the next day, suspicion spreads not only...
- 1929
Images of Ostend (1929)
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Structured in visual chapters: the port, anchors, the wind, the spray, the dunes, the North Sea… A series of images that need no anecdote or explanation. Storck offers a glimpse of Ostend, aspects that order its multiple constitutive elements; The wa...
- 1946
The World of Paul Delvaux (1946)
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This was Henri Storck first art documentary, a portrait about the painter, Paul Delvaux....
- 1929
For Your Beautiful Eyes (1929)
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The ideas for the next film, Pour vos beaux yeux (For Your Beautiful Eyes), came from Félix." In eight minutes and 75 shots, the film tells the story of a young man who finds a glass eye in a park, becomes obsessed with the object and attempts to get...
- 2013
My Conversations on Film (2013)
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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...
- 1930
Herring Fishers (1930)
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A boat leaves the port of Ostend and casts its nets, but when it enters French territorial waters the boat is inspected by the coasts guards....
- 1948
Rubens (1948)
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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 ...
- 1952
Smuggler's Ball (1952)
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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 op...
- 1930
Pleasure Trips (1930)
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The beach and the bathers, poses and gestures. A series of sketches and portraits, little touches that build up into a wry, affectionate portrait of a Sunday at the beach....
- 1944
Peasant Symphony (1944)
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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 ...
- 1936
Houses of Poverty (1936)
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Borinage left Henri Storck profoundly disturbed by injustice and social poverty. When he was offered a chance to make the film he undertook an in-depth survey into the working class and slums and shouldered his camera as a militant filmmaker. In a pl...
- 1932
Story of the Unknown Soldier (1932)
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For Histoire du soldat inconnu (Story of the Unknown Soldier) Storck watched newsreels for the whole of 1928, the year when 60 nations signed a pact outlawing war, and juxtaposed this heart-warming utopia with the signs of a forthcoming conflict (thi...
- 1970
Paul Delvaux or the Forbidden Women (1970)
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The second part of "Le monde de Paul Delvaux" (1944/1946)...
- 1958
Lords of the Forest (1958)
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Documentary about the inhabitants, both human and animal, of the Belgian Congo. Released in 1958....
- 1932
Outside the Border of the Camera (1932)
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A montage of images from newsreels; Storck's edit contains comical, poignant, even chilling juxtapositions....
- 1946
Pilgrimage to Hell (1946)
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Biopic about Father Damian and his life and work on the island of Molokai....
- 1945
Meeting of Artists (1945)
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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 friend...
- 1952
The Open Window (1952)
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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 t...