Cinematek Explained

Location:Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE
Type:cinematheque
Founder:Jacques Ledoux, Constantin Brodzki and Corneille Hannoset

The Royal Belgian Film Archive[1] (;[2] [3]) is a cinematheque located in the Centre for Fine Arts, in Brussels, Belgium. It is often referred to as CINEMATEK (a homophone of).

History

The cinematheque was established in 1938 as a film archive by Henri Storck, André Thirifays, and Piet Vermeylen.

In 2002 the Film Museum founded by Jacques Ledoux, Constantin Brodzki and Corneille Hannoset was integrated into the archive to become a cinematheque.[4]

In 2009 it became known as "CINEMATEK".[5]

Collection

Its collection include works on film by Man Ray, Duchamp and Léger.[6] As of 2018, the archive held 47,726 films and over a hundred-thousand film materials, with over eight thousand of the items originating from Belgium. The challenges associated with managing the collection were discussed in a 2001 article[7] by Gabrielle Claes who served as director of the archive from 1988 until 2011.[8] [9]

CINEMATEK led the organization of the EXPRMNTL film festival which was run four times: 1949, 1958, 1963, 1967, and 1974.[10] [11] The festival is depicted in the 2016 film Exprmntl which was shown in 2019 at the London Short Film Festival.[12] [13]

Curators

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Paul Geitner . Paul Geitner . 11 May 2001 . Belgium's Vast Film Archive Fights for Self-Preservation . 15 February 2014 . .
  2. Web site: CINEMATEK? La Cinémathèque royale de Belgique. Cinematek. 15 February 2014.
  3. Web site: CINEMATEK? Het Koninklijk Belgisch Filmarchief . 15 February 2014 . Cinematek.
  4. Web site: Gegevens van de geregistreerde entiteit KBO Public Search . 2024-01-06 . kbopub.economie.fgov.be.
  5. News: Guy Duplat and Alain Lorfèvre . 2 July 2011 . Le nouveau visage de la Cinémathèque . 15 February 2014 . . fr.
  6. News: Le directeur de la cinematheque apres l'incendie du Palais de Chaillot, "C'est un desastre, mais...". Cordy. Jacques. 28 July 1997. Le Soir. fr. 15 February 2014.
  7. Web site: Claes. Gabrielle. 2001. Managing a collection- issues of selection and transmission. live. January 17, 2022. Danish Film Institute. Preserve Then Show. https://web.archive.org/web/20190418093917/https://www.dfi.dk/files/docs/2018-01/Gabrielleclaes.pdf . 2019-04-18 .
  8. Web site: Bouras. Dimitra. Vlaeminckx. Jean-Michel. 2012. Nicola Mazzanti, conservateur de Cinematek. live. 2022-01-16. Cinergie.be. https://web.archive.org/web/20200929164117/https://www.cinergie.be/actualites/interview-du-nouveau-conservateur-de-la-cinematek . 2020-09-29 .
  9. Web site: Danvers. Louis. 2005-04-15. Gabrielle Claes ou la transmission. 2022-01-17. Site-LeVif-FR. fr.
  10. Web site: 2016. Press kit for Exprmntl. live. January 17, 2022. exprmntl. https://web.archive.org/web/20180812045452/http://exprmntl.be/pages/EXPRMNTL-Presskit-ENG.pdf . 2018-08-12 .
  11. Web site: EXPRMNTL: An Expnded Festival. Programming and Polemics at EXPRMNTL 4, Knokke-le-Zoute, 1967. 2022-01-17. www.ocec.eu.
  12. Web site: Exprmntl. 2022-01-17. en-US.
  13. Web site: Events LSFF2019 London Short Film Festival. 2022-01-17. archive.shortfilms.org.uk.
  14. Thompson. Kristin. Bordwell. David. 1989. Jacques Ledoux: 1921-88. Cinema Journal. 28. 3. 4–7. 1224855 . 0009-7101.
  15. Web site: International Federation of Film Archives. 2022-01-17. www.fiafnet.org.
  16. Web site: About us - CINEMATEK. 2022-01-17. www.cinematek.be.
  17. Web site: Moury. Gaelle. 2020-10-08. Tomas Leyers, nouveau conservateur de Cinematek. live. 2022-01-17. Le Soir. fr. https://web.archive.org/web/20220117140409/https://www.lesoir.be/330408/article/2020-10-08/tomas-leyers-nouveau-conservateur-de-cinematek . 2022-01-17 .

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