“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].
“Although Dekeukeleire’s fourth film is often called Flamme blanche, its actual title is in Flemish, Witte vlam.
“A social documentary is distinguished from an ordinary documentary and weekly newsreels by the viewpoint that the author clearly supports in it.
This kind of social documentary demands that one take a position because it dots the i’s.
