Henri Storck was a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

  author, film-maker and documentarist.

In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens

Joris Ivens

Joris Ivens was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.-Early life and career:...

, Misère au Borinage

Misère au Borinage

Misère au Borinage is a 1933 Belgian documentary film directed by Henri Storck and Joris Ivens.The film opens with these words: Crisis in the Capitalist World. Factories are closed down, abandoned...

, a film about the miner

Miner

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s in the Borinage

Borinage

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 area. In 1938, with Andre Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen

Piet Vermeylen

Piet Vermeylen , was a Belgian lawyer, and Belgian Socialist politician and minister. He was the son of the Flemish politician August Vermeylen.-Early life:...

, he founded the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Royal Belgian Film Archive). He was an actor in two key films of the history of the cinema: Jean Vigo

Jean Vigo

Jean Vigo was a French film director, who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s and was a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s.-Biography:...

's Zéro de conduite

Zéro de Conduite

Zéro de conduite is a 1933 French film directed by Jean Vigo. It was first shown on 7 April 1933, and was subsequently banned in France until 15 February 1946....

 (1933) in the role of the priest, and Chantal Akerman

Chantal Akerman

Chantal Anne Akerman is a Belgian film director, artist, and professor of film at the European Graduate School. Akerman's best-known film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles , exemplifies a dedication to the ellipses of conventional narrative cinema.-Early life:Akerman was born to...

's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay Commercial, 1080 Brussels (1976) 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".

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)
• 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'
• Misère au Borinage
  Misère au Borinage
  Misère au Borinage is a 1933 Belgian documentary film directed by Henri Storck and Joris Ivens.The film opens with these words: Crisis in the Capitalist World. Factories are closed down, abandoned...
  
   - 28' (directed with Joris Ivens
  Joris Ivens
  Joris Ivens was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.-Early life and career:...
  
  , 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
  La Roue de la Fortune
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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

• Rubens - 65' (directed with Paul Haesaerts
  Paul Haesaerts
  Paul Haesaerts was a multi talented Belgian artist.Born as Pauwel Helena Alfons Haesaerts, son of Benjamin Adolf Jan Baptist Haesaerts and Emma Philomena Spillemaeckers....
  
  )

1949

• Au carrefour de la vie - 28'

1950

• Carnavals - 15'

1951

• Le Banquet des fraudeurs
  The Smugglers' Banquet
  The Smugglers' Banquet is a 1952 Belgian crime film directed by Henri Storck. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marguerite Daulboys* Yves Deniaud – Van Mol* Arthur Devère – Fabriekskoncierge* Marthe Dua...
  
   - 90'

1952

• La Fenêtre ouverte - 18'

1953

• Herman Teirlinck
  Herman Teirlinck
  Herman Louis Cesar Teirlinck Herman Louis Cesar 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...
  
   - 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
  Philippe Arthuys was a French composer and film director. He worked on over 20 films between 1959 and 1997.-External links:...
  
  )

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' Palme d'Or
  Palme d'Or
  The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
  
   nominee for short film.
• 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
  Patrick Conrad
  Patrick Conrad 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 – Mascara with Charlotte Rampling and Michael Sarazin...
  
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