Marcel Broodthaers and Film

Steven Jacobs is an art historian specializing in the relations between art and film. He teaches at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp. Steven Jacobs is an art historian specializing in the relations between art and film. He teaches at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp. Raf Wollaert completed a PhD on the subject of Marcel Broodthaers’s cinema at the University of Antwerp in 2024. Raf Wollaert completed a PhD on the subject of Marcel Broodthaers’s cinema at the University of Antwerp in 2024.

• PrefaceIntroduction The Cinema Models of Marcel BroodthaersSteven Jacobs and Raf WollaertRené and Marcel at the Movies Preliminary RemarksBruce JenkinsLa Séance and Other Assemblies Eric C. H. de BruynBroodthaers’s Cinepoetic Concretions Christophe Wall-RomanaA Denounced Tautology On Une Seconde d’éternité (D’après une idée de Charles Baudelaire)(1970)Andrew ChesherLe Corbeau et le renard in Knokke-le-Zoute Notes on the Production and Projection at EXPRMNTL 4, December 1967Xavier García BardónTraveling Words and Images Found Postcards in the Films of Marcel BroodthaersDeborah SchultzMarcel Broodthaers’s Underground Cinema Au-delà de cette limite (1971)Charlotte FrilingBroodthaers, Bentham, and Pygmalion Figures of Wax (1974)Steven Jacobs In The Eye of the Storm Berlin oder ein Traum mit Sahne (1974)Raf WollaertFilmography Raf WollaertContributors and EditorsIndex

“A rich and inspiring collection of essays that shed light into the yet unexplored work of Marcel Broodthaers as a filmmaker. Providing fascinating and detailed descriptions of several of his films and written in an engaging style, the book is sure to inspire scholars and researchers alike interested in the work of this talented and versatile artist and in experimental cinema and its connection with the other arts”. - Loukia Kostopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki