Henri Storck Movies

Departing Ostend for the North Sea grounds, a fishing boat casts its herring nets until a drift into French waters prompts a boarding by the coast...

A documentary celebrating 25 years of flemish subsidised cinema.

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...

Henri Storck’s militant short on Depression-era Belgium, set in Walloon slums on the outskirts of a prosperous city. Staged vignettes expose...

Documentary about the Belgian (documentary) filmmaker Henri Storck.

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...

Built from 1928 newsreels—the year 60 nations vowed to outlaw war—Storck’s razor-edged montage mocks the era’s...

One of the first European films commissioned by the countries that signes the Brussels treaty and filmed in the museums of Brussels, Amsterdam,...

A 1934 documentary by Henri Storck.

Documentary directed by Henri Storck. The film follows several groups of tourists on a visit to different sites in Belgium, the Netherlands and...

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

Found footage using Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman.

A silent seaside vignette from Henri Storck: weekenders (“day-trippers”) descend on the Belgian coast for brief escape—bathing...

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...

"Pour vos beaux yeux" (For Your Beautiful Eyes) is an eight-minute surrealist short by Henri Storck, conceived from an idea by Félix Labisse....

A day-of record of 30 December 1938 as Belgium mourns Emile Vandervelde—“the Boss”—with massed corteges, banners, and...

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...

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...

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...

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...