Cinematek

CINEMATEK (Dutch: Koninklijk Belgisch Filmarchief;[1] French: Cinémathèque royale de Belgique;[2] English: Royal Belgian Film Archive[3]) is a film archive in Brussels, Belgium.

CINEMATEK
Established1938
LocationBrussels, Belgium
TypeCinema
Websitewww.cinematek.be/en/

The archive was established in 1938 under the name Royal Belgian Film Archive[3] by Henri Storck, André Thirifays, and Piet Vermeylen.

Its collection include works on film by Man Ray, Duchamp and Léger.[4] As of 2018, the archive held 47,726 films and over a hundred-thousand film materials, with over eight thousand of the items originating from Belgium.[5] The challenges associated with managing the collection were discussed in a 2001 article[5] by Gabrielle Claes who served as director of the archive from 1988 until 2011.[6][7]

Cinematek led the organization of the EXPRMNTL film festival which was run four times: 1949, 1958, 1963, 1967, and 1974.[8][9] The festival is depicted in the 2016 film Exprmntl which was shown in 2019 at the London Short Film Festival.[10][11]

The Royal Belgian Film Archive is currently known as "Cinematek".[1][2][12]

Curators

References
  1. "CINEMATEK? Het Koninklijk Belgisch Filmarchief". Cinematek. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  2. "CINEMATEK? La Cinémathèque royale de Belgique". Cinematek. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  3. Paul Geitner (11 May 2001). "Belgium's Vast Film Archive Fights for Self-Preservation". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  4. Cordy, Jacques (28 July 1997). "Le directeur de la cinematheque apres l'incendie du Palais de Chaillot, "C'est un desastre, mais..."". Le Soir (in French). Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  5. Claes, Gabrielle (2001). "Managing a collection- issues of selection and transmission" (PDF). Danish Film Institute. Preserve Then Show. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-04-18. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
  6. Bouras, Dimitra; Vlaeminckx, Jean-Michel (2012). "Nicola Mazzanti, conservateur de Cinematek". Cinergie.be. Archived from the original on 2020-09-29. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  7. Danvers, Louis (2005-04-15). "Gabrielle Claes ou la transmission". Site-LeVif-FR (in French). Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  8. "Press kit for Exprmntl" (PDF). exprmntl. 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-08-12. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
  9. "EXPRMNTL: An Expnded Festival. Programming and Polemics at EXPRMNTL 4, Knokke-le-Zoute, 1967". www.ocec.eu. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  10. "Exprmntl". Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  11. "Events | LSFF2019 | London Short Film Festival". archive.shortfilms.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  12. Guy Duplat and Alain Lorfèvre (2 July 2011). "Le nouveau visage de la Cinémathèque". La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  13. Thompson, Kristin; Bordwell, David (1989). "Jacques Ledoux: 1921-88". Cinema Journal. 28 (3): 4–7. ISSN 0009-7101.
  14. "International Federation of Film Archives". www.fiafnet.org. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  15. "About us - CINEMATEK". www.cinematek.be. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  16. Moury, Gaelle (2020-10-08). "Tomas Leyers, nouveau conservateur de Cinematek". Le Soir (in French). Archived from the original on 2022-01-17. Retrieved 2022-01-17.


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