Henri Storck (5 September 1907 â 17 September 1999) was a Belgian writer, filmmaker and documentarist.
In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens, Misère au Borinage, a film about the miners in the Borinage area. The film was banned in several countries, but he gained worldwide notoriety from the film becoming a milestone in activist cinema. 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's Zéro de conduite (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.
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 (1966âÂÂ1968)
Films
1927âÂÂ1928
1929âÂÂ1930
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1940
1942âÂÂ1944
- ' â 31'
- ' â 23'
- ' â 19'
- ' â 20'
- ' â 22'
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1953âÂÂ1954
1955
1956
1957
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1970âÂÂ1971
1975
1978
1985
See also
Notes
References
- Geens Vincent, Bula Matari : un rêve d'Henri Storck; Cahiers Henri Storck nð 1, Crisnée, Yellow Now, 2000
- Emile Cantillon, Paul Davay, Josette Debacker, Jacques Polet, Daniel Sotiaux ...[et 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 àHenri 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 du 6 août 2006 Henri Storck a-t-il collaboré ? article de Fabienne Bradfer paru le 6 août 2006 dans le journal Le Soir
- Luc de Heusch, Biographie d'Henri Storck, Fonds Henri Storck
- Luc Deneulin & Johan Swinnen "Henri Storck Memoreren" VUB Press 2006 (en NL)