Cinematek
| Established | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Location | Brussels, Belgium |
| Type | Cinema |
| Website | www |
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.
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
- Jacques Ledoux, 1948 to 1988[13]
- Gabrielle Claes, 1988 to 2011[14]
- Nicola Mazzanti, 2012 to 2020[6]
- Tomas Leyers 2020 to [15][16]
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