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In 1933 leftist film maker and founder of experimental cinema in Belgium, Henri Storck (1907-1999) makes a documentary on life in Belgium’s dead poor mining region, Borinage (in the Charleroi region). Its subject as well as its style shook the world and Misery in the Borinage became a landmark in documentary film making. Later on, its mixture of documentary, newsreel footage and re-enacted scenes was coined neo

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