A lyrical documentary on the lives of Coal miners in the Donbass who are struggling to meet their production quotas under the Five Year Plan. Vertov’s first sound film, Enthusiasm explores the complex interaction between sound and image.
A ship leaves the port of Ostend, the nets are cast, but when it enters French territorial waters it is inspected by the coast guards.
A close and humerous observation of the people in Ostend, their behaviour and attitudes.
“In a small ‘borderline’ town, anywhere in Europe, Pete, a negro, is working in a cheap hotel café. His wife, Adah, who had left him some time previously, has arrived also in the same town, although neither is aware of the presence of the other.
In de late jaren 1920 werd Carlo Queeckers als een van de belangrijkste Belgische cineasten beschouwd. Helaas zijn de meeste van zijn films verloren gegaan. De enige uitzondering is Het leven eener groote abdij, een film uit 1930 over de abdij van Tongerlo.
« En 1961, Luc de Heusch réalisera La leçon des choses, film par lequel il invite Magritte lui-même à donner une leçon sur sa démarche picturale et plus particulièrement sur le gouffre qui sépare les mots et les choses.
“In 1927, four years after he joined the faculty of the Bauhaus school in Weimar Germany, Moholy-Nagy published Malerei, Fotografie, Film [Painting, Photography, Film].
During a political demonstration at the foot of the Yser Tower, a young man working as a butcher commits an act of rebellion that is brutally suppressed by the authorities.
