From the blu-ray cover:
Henri Storck (Ostend 1907 – Brussels 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to commercial films. He is recognised as a pioneer of Belgian cinema and a key figure in documentary. Misère au Borinage, which he co-directed with Joris Ivens in 1933, has become a classic of the ‘cinema of reality’ with which he was most closely associated.

Misere au Borinage (1933) Henri Storck 576 SD.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	28 min 19 s
Size: 	647 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	660x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.146
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.329
Audio
#1:  	French 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/4C580346505B085/Misere_au_Borinage_(1933)_Henri_Storck_576_SD.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Dutch

The post Joris Ivens & Henri Storck – Misère au Borinage AKA Misery in the Borinage (1934) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Cinema meets art critic. In this film commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Paul Haessaerts is responsible for ensuring that the screenplay (which he wrote together with Henri Storck) and the voice-over are intelligently informative. He provides a definition of Baroque, talks about the images’ composition, refers to Rubens’ life and makes a thematic analysis of his work, its evolution and it’s influence. The content is entirely in line with the demanding guidelines that André Bazin praised when explaining the education role of cinema. The form is innovative and inventive. The animation emphasizes the paintings’ key elements and structure and visualizes the composition. The split screen makes it possible to make comparative analyses of paintings and styles. Notwithstanding this textbook virtuosity Storck develops his own method, using the camera’s movements to enter into the drama of the painting. Tracking shots, exploring the painting, stopping at a detail, fragmentation, the closeness of the bodies and the faces. The first part of the film is analytical and biographical, the second part takes us, lyrically, into the paintings and into Rubens’ world “that the film recreates before our eyes” (Paul Davay). Both parts feature a very prominently present orchestral score.

851MB | 1h 01m | 640×448 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/D81AB2B69A0BC74/Rubens.avi

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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