Marcel Broodthaers

Known for Directing

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Pipe Satire

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

Berlin Oder Ein Traum Mit Sahne

Monsieur Teste

Figure Of Wax

La signature

La Pluie (Projet Pour Un Texte)

Ceci Ne Serait Pas Une Pipe

A Film by Charles Baudelaire (Second Version)

Here Is Always Somewhere Else

The Last Voyage

A Voyage on the North Sea

Mauretania

Speakers Corner

Rendez-vous Mit Jacques Offenbach

Exercice

Au-delà de cette limite

La Lune

Projet Pour Un Poisson

3 Postcards

Le Corbeau et le Renard

O-X