Art and Cinema: The Belgian Art Documentary (1972)
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7h 5min
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Synopsis:
This set brings together 3 video's with 19 of the most important films and an essay by Steven Jacobs on the experimental art film in Belgium. Steven Jacobs is art historian specialized in photography and film. He is author of The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock (010 Publishers, 2007) and Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts (Edinburgh University Press, 2011). He teaches modern and contemporary art at the department of Art - Music - and Theatre Studies of Ghent University, Belgium.
This disc includes the following:
- Charles Dekeukeleire, André Cauvin, Paul Haesaerts, Pierre Alechinsky Themes of Inspiration (1938)
- The Mystic Lamb (1939)
- Return of the Mystic Lamb (1946)
- Hans Memling, Painter of the Madonna (1939)
- Visit to Picasso (1950)
- From Renoir to Picasso (1950)
- Four Belgian Painters at Work (1952)
- Japanese Calligraphy (1956)
Disc 2:
This disc includes the following:
- Henri Storck: The World of Paul Delvaux (1944-46)
- An Artists Gathering (1945)
- Rubens (1948)
- The Open Window (1952)
- Paul Delvaux or the Forbidden Women (1969-70)
- Herman Teirlinck (1953)
Disc 3:
This disc includes the following:
- Luc de Heusch: Magritte or the Object Lesson (1960) - Alechinsky: From Life (1970)
- Dotremont - The Logograms (1972)
- I'm Crazy, I'm Foolish, I'm Nasty. A Self Portrait of James Ensor (1990)
- Michel De Ghelderode (1957)
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