Jef Cornelis

Most Popular Jef Cornelis Trailers

Total trailers found: 15

Ge kent de weg en de taal Trailer (1976)

06 January 1976

This is a film on country life, on daily life in a village. Someone ’who knows the way and the language’ can feel at home somewhere or is at least familiar with the vicinity.

Documenta 4 Trailer (1968)

01 January 1968

Held in Kassel between June and October 1968, documenta 4—the last to be directed by Arnold Bode—was plagued by controversy and debate: artistic, political, generational, and aesthetic conflicts, as well as tensions between European and American art were some of the issues that affected this edition, echoing the social and political upheavals that were taking place elsewhere at the same time.

Voyage à Paris Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

Using letters from famous visitors to Paris - Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Rainer Maria Rilke - the magical image of the city of lights is linked to that of a banal consumerism.

Brussel, scherven van geluk Trailer (1995)

09 May 1995

’Brussels, fragments of happiness’ is no ordinary documentary on the Belgian capital. The aim of its creators, Jef Cornelis and scenarists Rudi Laermans and Pieter ’T Jonck, was to understand why this city had turned into what it is: a transitory space, a city where many thousands of Flemish people arrive by train or by car to go to work every day, just to leave again in the evening.

Un Week-end avec Monsieur Magritte : Tome 1, Samedi Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

The first part of a Magritte portrait, mainly compiled from fragments of staged enactments of situations, which Magritte recorded with, among others, Georgette Magritte, Paul Colinet, Irène Hamoir and Scutenaire, playfully described by the latter as "une histoire érotico-fantastico-iconoclaste".

Patershol, Gent Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

After a general view of the city Ghent, its horizon and roofs, we are confronted with views of streets and houses in one particular district that is threatened with demolition.

Park Abbey Heverlee Trailer (1964)

12 September 1964

At the start of his long career within the Belgian public broadcasting system, Jef Cornelis produced a total of three films about historic buildings: the Landcommanderij at Alden Biesen, a military castle in Bilzen; and the Abdij van het Park, a monastery in Heverlee; and the Kasteel de Merode, a bourgeois castle in Westerlo.

Na alle vlees: portret van een werkwijze Trailer (1981)

04 September 1981

Dutch writer Jacq Firmin Vogelaar and Flemish writer Daniël Robberechts talk about their craft.

Antwerp, April 18 - May 7, 1969 Trailer (1969)

07 May 1969

This documentary includes an interview with Byars during his stay in Antwerp in 1969 in which the artist reflects on the objectives of some of his performances and the means employed in them.

De achterkamer Trailer (1981)

13 November 1981

Visual artist Oscar de Wit interviews Flemish writer Daniël Robberechts in the backroom of his house in Everbeek, Belgium.

Daniel Buren Trailer (1971)

11 May 1971

Documentary about Daniel Buren’s second exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp (Travail in situ, 11 May–5 June 1971).

The Street Trailer (1972)

14 September 1972

The film De straat (The Street) opens with scenes of a protest in a street. Right after, we see aerial views of a busy highway.

Rijksweg N1 Trailer (1978)

23 April 1978

For the television film Highway N°1, Jef Cornelis once again worked with architecture critic Geert Bekaert, who provided the screenplay.

De Koninklijke serres van Laken 1877-1902 Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

Cornelis’ camera slowly strides the silhouettes of the Royal Greenhouses in Brussels, built in the mid-19th century by Alphonse Balat as a glass palace.

Documenta 5 Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

Held in Kassel between June and October 1972, documenta 5 was organized by “master curator” Harald Szeeman, and remains one of the most important international exhibitions of the last few decades.