The Ostend Films (DVD & Blu-Ray) ( Images d'Ostende ) ( Beelden van Oostende )

The Ostend Films (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Images d'Ostende
Alternate Title: Beelden van Oostende
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Mono )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Belgium ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
97 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1929 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Henri Storck

Written By:
Henri Storck

Actors:
Henri Storck

Synopsis:

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. An eyewitness of his times, he made socially engaged films, but also poetic and experimental short films, films on art and a fiction feature. His body of work consists of 70 films, including a series of accounts, presented on this DVD, on his native city of Ostend of which he was the chronicler and which remained, for him, the Queen of beaches.

An early example of film impressionism, shot mainly with a hand-held camera. The director surveys the coast regions of Ostend with their bare beaches, windy promenades and sand dunes and turns them into a type of abstract poem. Only a few human beings intrude into the wintery landscape.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 26 March, 2012.

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