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Henri Storck (5 September 1907 – 17 September 1999) was a Belgian writer, filmmaker and documentarist. In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens, ''
Misère au Borinage ''Misère au Borinage'' ( French; ), also known as ''Borinage'', is a 1934 Belgian documentary film directed by Henri Storck and Joris Ivens. Produced during the Great Depression, the film's theme is intensely socialist, covering the poor living ...
'', a film about the miners in the Borinage area. In 1938, with Andre Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen, he founded the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Royal Belgian Film Archive). Storck was an actor in two key films of the history of the cinema:
Jean Vigo Jean Vigo (; 26 April 1905 – 5 October 1934) was a French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s. His work influenced French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Biography Vigo was born to ...
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Zéro de conduite ''Zero for Conduct'' (french: Zéro de conduite) is a 1933 French featurette directed by Jean Vigo. It was first shown on 7 April 1933 and was subsequently banned in France until November 1945.Temple (2011), p. 145. The film draws extensively on ...
'' (1933) in the role of the priest, and Chantal Akerman's '' Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay Commercial, 1080 Brussels'' (1975) in the role of a customer of the prostitute. Jacqueline Aubenas wrote about him, in her expository work, ''It's been going on for 100 years: a history of the francophone cinema of Belgium'': "There emerges forcefully the personality of a cineaste who is not a militant in the sense that this term had in the 1930s for Soviet directors who held an ideology, but in the sense of a generous man who will never choose the wrong side and who will be, in ethics as well as in esthetics, in the first line of battle". In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the
1st Moscow International Film Festival The 1st Moscow International Film Festival was held from 3 to 17 August 1959. The Grand Prix was awarded to the Soviet film '' Destiny of a Man'' directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. Jury * Sergei Gerasimov (USSR - President of the Jury) * Antonin Br ...
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Awards and achievements

* Doctor honoris causa of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1978) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (1995) * cofounder with André Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen, of the Cinémathèque de Belgique (1938) *
André Cavens Award for Best Film André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a variation ...
for ''Permeke'' (1985) * honorary president of the Association belge des auteurs de films et de télévision (1992) * founder member of the Association internationale des documentalistes (AID, 1963) * lecturer at the Institut des arts de diffusion (IAD), Bruxelles (1966–1968)


Films

1927–1928 *'' Films d'amateur sur Ostende'' 1929-1930 *'' Pour vos beaux yeux'' - 8' *'' Images d'Ostende'' - 12' 1930 *'' Une pêche au hareng'' - 15' *'' le Service de sauvetage à la côte belge'' - 18' *'' Ostende, reine des plages'' - 11' *'' Les Fêtes du Centenaire'' - 7' *'' Trains de plaisir'' - 8' *'' Films abstraits dessinés sur pellicule'' *'' La Mort de Vénus'' - 10' *'' Suzanne au bain'' - 10' 1931 *'' Une idylle à la plage'' - 35' 1932 *'' Les Travaux du tunnel sous l'Escaut'' - 20' *'' Histoire du soldat inconnu'' - 10' *'' Sur les bords de la caméra'' - 10' 1933 *'' Trois vies et une corde'' - 33' 1933 *''
Misère au Borinage ''Misère au Borinage'' ( French; ), also known as ''Borinage'', is a 1934 Belgian documentary film directed by Henri Storck and Joris Ivens. Produced during the Great Depression, the film's theme is intensely socialist, covering the poor living ...
'' - 28' (directed with Joris Ivens, sound since 1963) 1934 *'' Création d'ulcères artificiels chez le chien'' - 15' *'' La Production sélective du réseau à 70 kVA'' - 20' 1935 *'' Électrification de la ligne Bruxelles-Anvers'' - 20' *'' L'Ile de Pâques'' - 26' *'' Le Trois-mâts Mercator'' - 23' *'' Cap au Sud'' - 25' *'' L'Industrie de la tapisserie et du meuble sculpté'' - 13' *'' Le Coton'' - 13' 1936 *'' Les Carillons'' - 13' *'' Les Jeux de l'été et de la mer'' - 14' *'' Sur les routes de l'été'' - 15' *'' Regards sur la Belgique ancienne'' - 20' 1937 *'' La Belgique nouvelle'' - 26' *'' Un ennemi public'' - 27' *'' Les Maisons de la misère'' - 30' 1938 *'' Comme une lettre à la poste'' - 25' *'' La Roue de la fortune'' - 15' *'' Terre de Flandre'' - 11' *''
Vacances ''Holiday'' (French: ''Vacances'') is a 1931 French comedy film directed by Robert Boudrioz and starring Florelle, Lucien Gallas and Georges Charlia.Goble p.39 The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. Plot summary ...
'' - 11' *'' Le Patron est mort'' - 31' *'' Pour le droit et la liberté à Courtrai'' - 13' 1940 *'' La Foire internationale de Bruxelles'' - unfinished 1942–1944 *'' Symphonie paysanne : Le Printemps'' - 31' *'' Symphonie paysanne : l'Été'' - 23' *'' Symphonie paysanne : Noces paysannes'' - 19' *'' Symphonie paysanne : l'Automne'' - 20' *'' Symphonie paysanne : l'Hiver'' - 22' 1945 *'' Rencontre d'artistes'' - 7' 1946 *'' Le Monde de Paul Delvaux'' - 11' 1947 *'' La Joie de revivre'' - 13' 1948 *'' Rubens'' - 65' (directed with
Paul Haesaerts Paul Haesaerts (15 February 1901 – 31 January 1974) was a multi talented Belgian artist. Born as Pauwel Helena Alfons Haesaerts, son of Benjamin Adolf Jan Baptist Haesaerts and Emma Philomena Spillemaeckers. As an artist he worked as an arch ...
) 1949 *'' Au carrefour de la vie'' - 28' 1950 *'' Carnavals'' - 15' 1951 *'' Le Banquet des fraudeurs'' - 90' 1952 *'' La Fenêtre ouverte'' - 18' 1953 *''
Herman Teirlinck Herman Louis Cesar Teirlinck (Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, 24 February 1879 – Beersel-Lot, 4 February 1967) was a Belgian writer. He was the fifth child and only son of Isidoor Teirlinck and Oda van Nieuwenhove, who were both teachers in Brussels. As a ...
'' - 55' 1954 *'' Les Belges et la mer'' - 15' *'' Les Portes de la nation'' - 15' 1953–1954 *'' Le Tour du monde en bateau-stop'' - 20' 1955 *'' Le Trésor d'Ostende'' - 24' *Dix reportages sur le Congo belge, l'Argentine et le Brésil 1956 *'' Décembre, mois des enfants'' - 21'30" 1957 *'' Couleur de feu'' - 45' 1960 *'' Les Gestes du silence'' - 15' 1961 *'' Les Dieux du feu'' - 12' *'' L'Énergie est à vous'' - 20' (directed with
Philippe Arthuys Philippe Arthuys (22 November 1928 – 6 January 2010) was a French composer and film director. He worked on over 20 films between 1959 and 1997. His 1965 film '' The Glass Cage'' was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival ...
) 1962 *'' Variations sur le geste'' - 23' *'' Le Bonheur d'être aimé ou Félix Labisse'' - 14' *'' Les Malheurs de la guerre'' - 11' 1963 *'' Plastiques'' 1964 *'' Matières nouvelles'' - 17' *'' Enquête sociologique en Yougoslavie'' 1965 *'' Le Musée vivant'' - 34' 1970–1971 *'' Paul Delvaux, ou les femmes défendues'' - 18'
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nominee for short film.Cannes 1971
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Patrick Conrad Patrick Conrad (born 16 July 1945 in Antwerp) is a Flemish poet, screenwriter and novelist, and one of the founders of The Pink Poets. He also directed about twenty movies for cinema and television, including – selected for the Cannes Festival ...
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See also

* '' Les Enfants du Borinage - Lettre à Henri Storck''


Notes


References

* Geens Vincent, ''Bula Matari : un rêve d'Henri Storck; Cahiers Henri Storck n° 1'', Crisnée, Yellow Now, 2000 * Emile Cantillon, Paul Davay, Josette Debacker, Jacques Polet, Daniel Sotiaux ...
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''Henri Storck'', Bruxelles, Association des professeurs pour la promotion de l'éducation cinématographique * Laura Vichi, trad. de l'italien par Hélène Bernier et Salvatore Manzone, ''Henri Storck : de l'avant-garde au documentaire social'', Crisnée, Yellow Now, 2002 * Jean Queval, ''Henri Storck ou La traversée du cinéma'', Bruxelles, Festival national du film belge, 1976 *''Hommage à Henri Storck : films 1928/1985 : catalogue analytique'', Bruxelles, Commissariat général aux relations internationales de la Communauté française de Belgique, 1995 * Reportage de la RTBF du vendredi 4 août 2006 * Interview, par Fabienne Bradfer, de l'historienne Florence Gillet paru dans le journal
Le Soir ''Le Soir'' (, "The Evening") is a French-language Belgian daily newspaper. Founded in 1887 by Emile Rossel, it was intended as a politically independent source of news. It is one of the most popular Francophone newspapers in Belgium, competing ...
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''Henri Storck a-t-il collaboré ?''
article de Fabienne Bradfer paru le 6 août 2006 dans le journal
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Luc de Heusch Luc de Heusch (7 May 1927 – 7 August 2012) was a Belgian filmmaker, writer, and anthropologist, professor emeritus at the Free University of Brussels. His 1967 film '' Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday'' was entered into the 5th Moscow Inte ...

Biographie
d'Henri Storck, Fonds Henri Storck * Luc Deneulin & Johan Swinnen "Henri Storck Memoreren" VUB Press 2006 (en NL) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Storck, Henri 1907 births 1999 deaths Belgian filmmakers Belgian documentary filmmakers People from Ostend