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Throughout his career, Luc De Heusch (1927-2012) combined his profession as an anthropologist with his vocation as a film maker. This resulted not only in a series of ethnographic documentaries on Sub-Saharan Africa (Hamba Feast, 1955; Rwanda 1956), but also in documentaries on the cultural habits of his fellow-countrymen: e.g.,  Mealtime Gestures (1958, on eating habits in Belgium), Friends of Pleasure (1961, on an

In the midst of the turmoil of the Second World War, Henri Storck (1907-1999) makes an almost two-hour documentary on peasant life in Belgium. In 5 parts (four seasons and a peasant wedding) he documents the work on the land in the pre-industrial era, keeping the middle between the lyrical and didactic. Despite the fact that the Belgian film industry is now under German supervision, Stock was determined to continue h