Welcome to the website of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium - CINEMATEK
we have been preserving and screening films since 1938…
CINEMATEK
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CINEMATEK
Much more than movie theatres
Shop
Webshop
Discover the Collection of DVDs and books published by the Royal Belgian Film Archive, CINEMATEK, available for sale online
Library
Library
The library has a rich collection of books, specialized magazines, press clippings, photos and posters about film and cinema. Consult the online catalogue.
Our Collections
Chantal Akerman Collection
CINEMATEK not only conserves all the films of this masterful director, but also manages her entire archive.
Exhibitions
Wunderkammer
In the Wunderkammer, the history of film is brought to life through various interactive showcases, starting from the Chinese shadow play to the cinematograph of the Lumière brothers.
New book !
TIME WITH US
Currently available for purchase…
LE TEMPS AVEC NOUS / DE TIJD MET ONS / TIME WITH US
A book on queer moving images, documenting a series of events held in 2022 at CINEMATEK, with contributions by Yann Beauvais, Stéphane Gérard, Elisabeth Lebovici, RV, Lionel Soukaz.
[…] Et dans votre film, d’ailleurs, vous bazardez la chronologie officielle, la chronologie hétéro-normée, la chronologie étatique, la chronologie du mètre-étalon, on pourrait dire, et vous proposez d’autres unités de mesure. Je trouve ça absolument fantastique.
(Elisabeth Lebovici)
Presenting as-yet-unpublished materials by RV and Lionel Soukaz.
Jacques Ledoux
“Jacques Ledoux has been memorialized in a lovely multilingual book that gathers reminiscences by Ledoux’s colleagues. There are memoirs by Noël Desmet, Clementine Deblieck, Jean-Paul Dorchain, Hilde Delabie, and Gabrielle Claes, Ledoux’s successor as director. Bernard Eisenschitz, Eric De Kuyper, and P. Adams Sitney offer illuminating appreciations of Ledoux’s contributions. (Sitney’s very full account of Knokke doings is a crucial document in the history of the American avant-garde.) Ledoux’s own voice is represented by a program note for a 1968 science-fiction series. There are many wonderful illustrations–photos, posters, correspondence (Cocteau, Lenica, Akerman).”
David Bordwell