Impatience (1929) by Charles Dekeukeleire
Saturday, October 27, 1984, 8:00 pm
The Films of Charles Dekeukeleire
Combat de Boxe, 1927; Impatience, 1929; Histoire de Détective, 1930
Although Dekeukeleire’s name is unfamiliar to today’s filmgoing public, he is a fascinating precursor of the contemporary avant-garde. As a young filmmaker he was called “incontestably the leader of the Belgian school” and “one of those very rare souls who has understood the cinema.” In Kristin Thompson’s article in Millenium Film Journal (the first English-language essay on Dekeukeleire in 50 years) she writes that he “prided himself on his anti-establishment situation and his refusal to compromise” and that he “delighted in describing to interviewers his primitive, improvised production situations, and especially how little his films cost to Produce.” This will be the San Francisco premiere of these films. Co-sponsored by the Belgian Consulate.