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L’équateur aux cents visages (Hundred Faces of the Equator, 1948) is a documentary by André Cauvin intended to promote tourism to Belgian Congo. It was sponsorred by the Belgian airline SABENA. While promoting tourism and stressing how easy and comfortable it is to travel to Africa, the film lingers on the the country’s natural beauty and fascinating exoticism.

In the late 1930s, André Cauvin had made fame as the director of several remarkable art documentaries. Because he was a well-known filmmaker at the time, he is asked by the Belgian Ministery of the Colonies to make documentaries about the Belgian Congo. After a first visit in 1939, Cauvin becomes attached to the country and its people. He returns on several occasions and makes many succesful documentaries. When the B

In L’agneau mystique (The mystic Lamb) the Belgian documentary film maker André Cauvin visually explores the famous 15th Century polyptych by Jan and Hubert Van Eyck (also known as the Ghent Altar Piece). With slow horizontal and vertical camera movements the filmmaker guides the viewer through the different panels of the altarpiece. Carefully chosen close-ups reveal the numerous details of the painting as well

L’Agneau Mystique (André Cauvin, 1939) is a pioneering Belgian art documentary about the Ghent Altarpiece by Jan and Hubert Van Eyck (1432). The dynamic style of the film influenced the post-war art documentary, notably the later films by Henri Storck (e.g., Rubens, 1948). Its director, André Cauvin (1907-2004) would later gain fame with his documentaries about The Belgian Congo, of which Bwana Kitoko (1955) is