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Henri Storck (5 September 1907 – 17 September 1999) was a Belgian writer, filmmaker and documentarist. In 1933, he directed, with
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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:
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'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
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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 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 *''
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'' - 15' *'' le Service de sauvetage à la côte belge'' - 18' *'' Ostende, reine des plages'' - 11' *'' Les Fêtes du Centenaire'' - 7' *''
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'' - 10' *''
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'' - 10' 1931 *''
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'' - 35' 1932 *'' Les Travaux du tunnel sous l'Escaut'' - 20' *''
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'' - 10' 1933 *''
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'' - 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 Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898 – 28 June 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Among the notable films he directed or co-directed are ''A Tale of the Wind'', ''The Spanish Earth'', ''Rain'', ''...A Valparaiso'', '' Mi ...
, 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' *''
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'' - 15' *'' Terre de Flandre'' - 11' *'' Vacances'' - 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 *''
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'' - 65' (directed with Paul Haesaerts) 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 ...
'' - 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) 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
/ref> * Fêtes de Belgique : '' Le Carnaval d'Ostende'' - 12'30" * Fêtes de Belgique : '' Le Mardi gras à Alost'' - 11'30" * Fêtes de Belgique : '' Le Carnaval de Malmedy'' - 12'30" * Fêtes de Belgique : '' Le Théâtre de rues à Malmedy'' - 11'30" * Fêtes de Belgique : '' Les Gilles de Binche'' - 26' * Fêtes de Belgique : '' La Plantation de Meyboom et le théâtre de Toone à Bruxelles'' - 14'30" * Fêtes de Belgique : '' La Procession du Saint-Sang à Bruges, les pénitents de Furnes'' - 12'45" * Fêtes de Belgique : '' Les Blancs Moussîs de Stavelot et la Ducasse de Mons'' - 13'30" * Fêtes de Belgique : '' La Passion du Christ à Lessines et à Ligny'' * Fêtes de Belgique : '' Les Fêtes d'Outremeuse à Liège'' - 14'30" * Fêtes de Belgique : '' Les Chinels de Fosses'' * Fêtes de Belgique : '' Les Grands-més de La Louvière'' * Fêtes de Belgique : '' le Tir des Campes à Liège'' - 12' 1975 *'' Fifres et tambours d'entre Sambre et Meuse'' - 21' *'' Les Marcheurs de Sainte Rolande'' - 17' *'' Les Joyeux tromblons'' - 16' 1978 *'' Le Chant du peintre'' - 11' 1985 *'' Permeke'' - 90' (directed with Patrick Conrad)


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 ... t al. ''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
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du vendredi 4 août 2006 * Interview, par Fabienne Bradfer, de l'historienne Florence Gillet paru dans le journal Le Soir du 6 août 200
''Henri Storck a-t-il collaboré ?''
article de Fabienne Bradfer paru le 6 août 2006 dans le journal Le Soir *
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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