JOHANNES IS ZIJN NAAM X RUBENS

You know Johannes Verschaeve as the pleasantly deranged frontman of The Van Jets. After the band's break-up, the Ghent-based Oostendener is doing it all on his own as "Johannes Is Zijn Naam." Poetic, Dutch-language lyrics meander between hissing rhythm boxes and primitive synths, with Johannes as a lone crooner at the microphone....

Then again, Henri Storck (1907-1999) was a Belgian filmmaker and a pioneer in documentary filmmaking. He made numerous films about art, which played a major role in his life and work. The award-winning film Rubens (1948), which he made with Paul Haesaerts, was more than a formal analysis of Rubens' oeuvre. Through a generous use of cinematic techniques, this film brings Rubens' pictorial world to life, with often striking comparisons to real-life imagery.

Henri Storck (1907-1999) was a Belgian filmmaker and pioneer in documentary filmmaking. He is best known for his documentaries Misère au Borinage (1933), a pamphlet against capitalism made in collaboration with Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens, and his Virgilian ecloge in Symphonie Paysanne (1944). Storck made numerous films about art, which played a major role in his life and work. His contemporaries included Belgian artists such as Léon Spilliaert, James Ensor, Paul Delvaux and Constant Permeke. His films on art include Le monde de Paul Delvaux (1946), Rubens (1948) and Herman Teirlinck (1953). The connection to his birthplace is reflected in films such as Images d'Ostende (1928), a magnificent ode to the beauty of Storck's birthplace on the Belgian coast.