Director
Marcel Broodthaers
Marcel Broodthaers 1924-1976 Belgian poet, photographer, film-maker and artist. Born in Brussels. Began as a poet and aged 16-17 had some contacts with the Belgian Surrealists, especially Magritte, who gave him a copy of Mallarmé's Un Coup de Dés. (Magritte's paintings with words, in which there is a contradiction between the painted word and the painted object, were later a crucial influence on him). Started in 1958 to publish articles illustrated with his own photographs. At the end of 1963 decided to become an artist and began to make objects. First one-man exhibition at the Galerie St Laurent, Brussels, 1964. Exhibited everyday objects, words, lettering, child-like drawings etc., often with verbal-visual puns; made books, catalogues, prints on everything from canvasesattached to the wall to reliefs in plastic. Made his first film in 1957 and from 1967 a number of short films.
Directed

La Clef de L'horloge (Poème cinémathographique en l’honneur de Kurt Schwitters)
Director · 1958

Pipe Satire
Director · 1969
Berlin Oder Ein Traum Mit Sahne
Director · 1989
Monsieur Teste
Director · 1974
Figure Of Wax
Director · 1974

La signature
Director · 1970

La Pluie (Projet Pour Un Texte)
Director · 1969
Ceci Ne Serait Pas Une Pipe
Director · 1970

A Film by Charles Baudelaire (Second Version)
Director · 1970

Le Corbeau et le Renard
Director · 1968
Exercice
Director · 1971
3 Postcards
Director · 1968
Speakers Corner
Director · 1972
La Lune
Director · 1970
Mauretania
Director · 1972
The Last Voyage
Director · 1974

A Voyage on the North Sea
Director · 1974
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