Showing posts with label Cinematek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cinematek. Show all posts
Friday, January 13, 2012
Movies from the Cinamtek! Part two!
Here's some more movies of early forms of motion pictures from the Cinematek.
Day 4 - Back in Brussels and really rolling now!
Welcome back to the program! Paris was wonderful and now it's time to get the class going in full swing! Today we took a walking tour around Brussels with an actual guide this time and it's great to get a little insight into the history of the city and the country of Belgium as it fits into the historic schema of Europe.
In addition to the walking tour, we've gotten a tour of the National Cinamtek of Brussels, which is an institution dedicated to all things film related. They offer a multitude of events ranging from dedicated film festival events, cinema and film based exhibition and screenings of films that run the gamut of silent film, documentary, experiment, and everything in-between.
On this particular occasion, we were offered the opportunity to see the home movies of the acclaimed Surrealist painter Rene Magritte, who just happens to hail from Belgium. Filling the exhibition spaces were a range of exhibits that offer insight into the birth of the motion picture and glimpse of the technology used to arrive at the contemporary age of digital cinema. The director of the institution was kind enough to provide us with a short lecture and then question & answer session that covered a broad range of topics, including the birth of the Cinematek, the movie industry through the ages, the works of Belgian poet, artist, and experimental filmmaker Marcel Broodthaers, and an intense discussion on the worldwide industry conversion to digital technology and what that means to the process of archiving for future ages. All interesting stuff and a pleasure to meet them all and enjoy some rarely seen footage of one of the twentieth centuries finest Surrealists, Rene Magritte.
In addition to the walking tour, we've gotten a tour of the National Cinamtek of Brussels, which is an institution dedicated to all things film related. They offer a multitude of events ranging from dedicated film festival events, cinema and film based exhibition and screenings of films that run the gamut of silent film, documentary, experiment, and everything in-between.
On this particular occasion, we were offered the opportunity to see the home movies of the acclaimed Surrealist painter Rene Magritte, who just happens to hail from Belgium. Filling the exhibition spaces were a range of exhibits that offer insight into the birth of the motion picture and glimpse of the technology used to arrive at the contemporary age of digital cinema. The director of the institution was kind enough to provide us with a short lecture and then question & answer session that covered a broad range of topics, including the birth of the Cinematek, the movie industry through the ages, the works of Belgian poet, artist, and experimental filmmaker Marcel Broodthaers, and an intense discussion on the worldwide industry conversion to digital technology and what that means to the process of archiving for future ages. All interesting stuff and a pleasure to meet them all and enjoy some rarely seen footage of one of the twentieth centuries finest Surrealists, Rene Magritte.
Photos from Day 4 - Walking tour and Cinematek
Diorama at Cinematek
View of one of four Royal Palaces in Brussels
Get online and see the sites...not the sights
Musical Instrument Museum
The Grand Place
On the Grand Place
Reflections of the Grand Place
More Grand Place...the other side
The Grand Place
Mannekin Pis, symbol of Brussels...
(why? we don't know)
Movies from the Cinamtek!
Here's some of the earliest examples of motion picture "technology" to be found at the Cinematek.
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