Belgien Edition, PAL/Region 0 DVD: TON: Französisch ( Mono ), Englisch ( Untertitel ), Französisch ( Untertitel ), Holländisch ( Untertitel ), BONUSMATERIAL: Kurzer Film, Satz 2-DVD, Schwarz und Weiß, Szene Zugang, Wechselwirkendes Menü, SYNOPSIS: Scenes of Ostend
(Henri Storck, 1929, 10'55)
Composition by Joachim Brackx
Film organized in visual chapters: the port, the anchors, the wind, the meerschaum, the dunes, the North Sea... a series of images which are completely freed of anecdote and illustration. Water, sand and waves become an integral part of the filmic vocabulary.
For Your Beautiful Eyes
(Henri Storck, 1929, 6'31)
Composition by Joachim Brackx
'Félix and I decided to move into film-making. I had shot Images d'Ostende (Scenes of Ostend) in 1929, but the ideas for the next film, Pour vos beaux yeux (For Your Beautiful Eyes), came from Félix.' In eight minutes and 75 shots, the film tells the story of a young man who finds a glass eye in a park, becomes obsessed with the object and attempts to get rid of it by sending it through the post. With Henry Van Vyve in the main role (Labisse and his sister Ninette made an appearance only in the first third of the script), the film was a clear surrealist statement, one year after Un chien andalou and its razorcut eye.
Story of the Unknown Soldier
(Henri Storck, 1932, 10'38)
Composition by Annelies Van Parys
For Histoire du soldat inconnu (Story of the Unknown Soldier) Storck watched newsreels for the whole of 1928, the year when 60 nations signed a pact outlawing war, and juxtaposed this heart-warming utopia with the signs of a forthcoming conflict (this was in 1932) - burgeoning nationalism, police brutality, excessive colonialism, bellicose politics. Ferocious editing sarcastically juxtaposes these good intentions with the political farce of speeches and parades, all to