Charles Dekeukeleire

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Charles Dekeukeleire is a Belgian author-filmmaker born on February 27, 1905 in Ixelles (Brussels) and deceased on June 2, 1971 in Werchter (the Flemish Brabant). He was with Henri Storck the pioneer of modern Belgian film. He was strongly inspired by the pure cinema of the French avant-garde, particularly of Germaine Dulac.

[edit] Biography

In the years 1920, he writes many articles in the reviews (7 Arts, Nouvelle Team, the last News).

In 1927, he carries out Boxing match, according to a poem of Paul Werrie, in his room. For this film, Dekeukeleire recruited two professional boxers of which the champion of Belgium of the light weights. The brutal change of plan scale, the use of the overprinting, the alternation of very short plans presenting the public (into negative) and fight it (in diving) do of this film one of the most thoroughly built the Twenties.

To the same place, he turns the following year Impatience, his master piece close to futurism. At the time of the presentation of his film, Charles Dekeukeleire stated that the glance of the spectators must adapt, to let itself slip along film to feel especially the things, the idles, the revolts, the spasms, the contractions which between them the fragments produce of which the lengths vary 1/24 of second to 25 seconds. The desire of the carnal contact with the machine is at the base of this film. In this drama with four characters (the Mountain, the abstract Motor bike, Woman and Blocks), the mechanical body, that of the Motor bike, are associated insistence on the female body, initially dressed with leather and then naked Through the filmic assembly, Dekeukeleire dismounts the two bodies from which the various pieces are exchanged between them. The result is a kind of symbiosis very suggestive motor bike-woman/woman-motor bike, even sensual. These two characters, the Motor bike and the Woman, enter then in interaction with the abstracted Mountain and Blocks, as if the realizer intended to put in scene major analogies between humanity, the animal world, the vegetable world and the mechanical world.

In 1929, it carries out Histoire of detective, a surrealist assembly-joining of inspiration. These the first three silent films of avant-garde will insert him in the History of the cinematograph and art.

Thereafter, his work will oscillate between documentary "socially useful" and official commands. It will not avoid some racist skids in the air of the time of the time, for example in Verschroeide aarde (Burned Grounds), 1934, which reports an automobile forwarding to Belgian Congo.

Dekeukeleire carried out a hundred films, detailed in an encyclopaedia of the cinemas of Belgium (Guy Jungblut, Patrick Leboutte, Dominique Païni), Museum of modern art of the city of Paris - Yellow Now Editions, 1990 Parallel to the realization of films, it carries on an activity of criticism. Charles Dekeukeleire is also the author of two works: Social emotion and the cinema and the thought, Edition Light, Brussels, 1947.

[edit] Films

1927

  • Combat de boxe - 35 mm, b and w, silent, 7'30"

1928

1929

  • Histoire de détective - 35 mm, b and w, silent, 49'.

1930

  • Witte vlam - 35 mm, b and w, silent, 11'.
  • Dixmude - 35 mm, b and w, silent

1931

  • Santé, notre droit - 35 mm, noir et blanc, muet.
  • Travailleurs! Ouvrez les yeux! - 35 mm, b and w, silent, 60'.

1932

  • Visions de Lourdes - 35 mm, b and w, silent, 18'.

1934

  • Terres brûlées - 35 mm, b and w, silent, 60'.

1936

  • Open signalen'
  • Symphonie florale
  • De Wol

1937

  • Het Kwade Oog / Le Mauvais oeil - 35 mm, b and w, sound, 74'.
  • Het Albertkanaal
  • Het Leder
  • Processies en karnavals

1938

  • Images du travail
  • De Christelijke vakbeweging
  • Thèmes d'inspiration
  • Chanson de toile

1939

  • La Conserve alimentaire
  • Les Noirs évoluent
  • L' Acier
  • Stijl

1942

  • Au service des prisonniers
  • Entr'aide
  • Secours d'hiver

1943

  • Images de banque
  • Nos enfants

1945

  • L'Usine aux champs

1946

  • Métamorphoses
  • La Vie recommence

1947

1948

  • Diamant
  • Le Trouble-fête
  • Images de la création
  • In het land van Thijl Uilenspiegel
  • Prends garde
  • Les Pères
  • Les Usines de ACEC

1949

  • 21 juillet
  • Le Capiage
  • L'Espace d'une vie
  • Neuf cents hommes
  • Au-delà des saisons

1950

  • Clôtures
  • Métiers d'art de Flandres et de Wallonie
  • Nocturne
  • Notre grand patron
  • Les Polders

1951

  • Une question de gros sous
  • Beauté, mon souci
  • Voyage au pays du rail
  • L' Homme à la ville
  • La Banque de Bruxelles

1952

  • Bloemen
  • Danse en forme de poudrier
  • Les Expériences du professeur Michotte
  • Faire farce
  • Hainaut, terre tenue des dieux et du soleil
  • Installations pétrollières à Anvers
  • Luchtmacht
  • Chausseur, sachez chausser

1953

  • L'Abbaye de Maredsous - Tv
  • Humor in hout - Tv

1954

  • Noblesse du bois
  • L'Alerte
  • Le Petit nuage/La chasse au nuage/Le nuage atomique

1955

  • Trois villes d'eau belges
  • Fil d'acier
  • Vers un monde nouveau

1956

  • Een Kermishoedje - Tv
  • Het Museum voor folklore - Tv

1957

  • Charles-Quint: destin d'un empire 1 - TV-Série

1958

  • Charles-Quint: destin d'un empire 2 - TV-Série
  • Kiemen van het licht

1958

  • Thèmes d'inspiration - 35 mm., b and w, 9'.

1962

  • Poëzie in 625 lijnen - TV-Série
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