Henri Storck

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henri Storck (1907, Ostend – 17 September 1999) was a Belgian author, film-maker and documentarist. In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens, Misère au Borinage, 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). He 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 (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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Henri Storck, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors o…

Directed

1. Borinage (1934) — Director
2. Images of Ostend (1929) — Director
3. For Your Beautiful Eyes (1929) — Director
4. The World of Paul Delvaux (1946) — Director
5. Smuggler's Ball (1952) — Director
6. Rubens (1948) — Director
7. Herring Fishers (1930) — Director
8. Paul Delvaux or the Forbidden Women (1970) — Director
9. Story of the Unknown Soldier (1932) — Director
10. Peasant Symphony (1944) — Director
11. Houses of Poverty (1936) — Director
12. Outside the Border of the Camera (1932) — Director
13. Pleasure Trips (1930) — Director
14. Romance on the Beach (1931) — Director
15. Vacances (1938) — Director
16. Meeting of Artists (1945) — Director
17. The Open Window (1952) — Director
18. L'île de Pâques (1935) — Director
19. Permeke (1985) — Director
20. Productie van gastroduodenal ulcers bij de hond (1934) — Director
21. Le Trois-Mâts Mercator (1935) — Director
22. Cap au Sud (1935) — Director
23. Herman Teirlinck (1953) — Director
24. Summer by the Sea (1931) — Director
25. The Boss is Dead (1938) — Director
26. Ostend, Queen of Seaside Resorts (1931) — Director
27. Ostende 1930 (2004) — Director
28. Ieper - Middelburg - Arras — Director
29. Daytrippers (1929) — Director
30. Crossroads of Life (1949) — Director
31. Feesten in België — Director

Also appeared in

1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976) — 1st Caller
2. Zero for Conduct (1933) — Priest (uncredited)
3. My Conversations on Film (2013) — Himself
4. Henri Storck, ooggetuige (1986) — Self
5. Janssen & Janssens draaien een film (1990) — Self
6. Les variations Dielman (2010) — 1st Caller (archive footage)
7. Ciné-mafia (1980)
8. Stars Meet in Moscow (1959) — Self