Jef Cornelis Retrospective

Inside the White Tube is the title of the retrospective exhibition of the Belgian film and television director Jef Cornelis that opens at the end of January in Argos, Brussels.

Cornelis worked as executor, director and scriptwriter for the BRT, the Dutch-language Belgian public broadcasting corporation, from 1963 until 1998. Over those 35 years Cornelis accomplished an impressive body of work. It comprises over 200 titles and is generally considered as groundbreaking, artistically and cultural-historically. In his essayistic television films he focuses on visual art, architecture and urbanism, following his desire to create and maintain a space for these subjects within the public sphere in Flanders. Throughout his career, Cornelis has tried to achieve this in various ways, ever challenging the set of laws of making television.

Along with the exhibition CINEMATEK presents a two-month film programme with Cornelis’ work.