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....
- 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
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...
- 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....
- 1980
Ciné-mafia (1980)
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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...
- 1946
Pilgrimage to Hell (1946)
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Biopic about Father Damian and his life and work on the island of Molokai....
- 1983
Borinage (1983)
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Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage....
- 1959
Stars Meet in Moscow (1959)
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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....
- 1985
Permeke (1985)
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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....
- 2010
Les variations Dielman (2010)
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Found footage using Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman....
- 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...
- 1934
L'île de Pâques (1934)
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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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 1953
Herman Teirlinck (1953)
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A portrait of the belgian writer Herman Teirlinck by Henri Storck....