Art & Cinema - The Belgian Art Documentary:

The 1940s and 1950s can be considered the heyday of the experimental art film. In that era, leading filmmakers such as Alain Resnais, Henri Alekan and Henri-Georges Clouzot presented the art documentary as a truly experimental genre that enabled them to combine cinematic experiments with artistic pr...

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Other Authors: Dekeukeleire, Charles (Director), Cauvin, André (Director), Haesaerts, Paul (Director), Alechinsky, Pierre (Director), Storck, Henri (Director), Heusch, Luc de (Director)
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Published: Bruxelles Cinematek 2013
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Summary:The 1940s and 1950s can be considered the heyday of the experimental art film. In that era, leading filmmakers such as Alain Resnais, Henri Alekan and Henri-Georges Clouzot presented the art documentary as a truly experimental genre that enabled them to combine cinematic experiments with artistic profundity. Also Belgian filmmakers such as Charles Dekeukeleire, André Cauvin, Henri Storck, Paul Haesaerts, and Luc de Heusch among others made important contributions to the development of the art film. Their films were clearly more than mere camera registrations of artworks but attempted at translating the perception of the original artworks into a truly cinematic experience. While some of their films demonstrated that cinema could become a useful tool for art analysis, others focused on the representation of artists such as Picasso, Magritte, Delvaux, Alechinsky, and Dotremont at work. Closely connected to or inspired by avant-garde currents such as Surrealism or CoBrA, these filmmakers were convinced that films on art should also be "art films" in themselves, which are characterized by a self-conscious modernist or avant-garde aesthetic. [www.cinematek.be]
Physical Description:[3 DVD] (425 Min.) s/w Farbe ; dolby digital 2.0

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