Jacques Ledoux
Jacques Ledoux (born Jankiel Mendel Silberberg in Warsaw in 1921 ; died June 6, 1988 in Brussels ) was a Belgian film historian, curator and archivist.
Life
Jacques Ledoux came to Brussels with his parents, where he grew up. As a teenager he began to be enthusiastic about film. He studied philosophy and engineering. In 1938 he met the founder Henri Langlois while visiting the Cinémathèque française . From 1941 he worked at the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique , which had been founded in 1938 by Pierre Vermeilen , Henri Storck and André Thirifays .
During the German occupation of Belgium, Ledoux and his parents were deported by train . He himself escaped, however, and his parents were later murdered. Ledoux was hidden by Benedictine monks in Maredsous Abbey in southern Belgium until the end of the war . There he took the name Jacques Ledoux (literally: "Jacques the Gentle"), his real name was not known for a long time. He could work in the publishing department. He discovered a nitrate film copy of Nanuk, the Eskimo , which he bequeathed to the Cinémathèque Royale in 1945 after his return to Brussels. He continued his engineering studies, worked as a volunteer archivist for the Cinémathèque and developed the film programs for the Ecran du Séminaire des Arts , Belgium's largest film club.
From 1948 he was appointed curator of the Cinémathèque, a position he held until his death. As a curator he was at the restoration of important films like Napoleon by Abel Gance involved. He also organized the experimental film festival EXPRMNTL in Knokke , which had five editions from 1949 to 1974.
From 1961 to 1977 he was General Secretary of the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film . In 1962 he was the founder of the Musée du cinéma de Bruxelles .
Trivia
In 1962 Ledoux had an appearance in the short film On the Edge of the Runway ( La Jetée ) by Chris Marker . He made it possible for François Truffaut to view Alfred Hitchcock films in preparation for his legendary interview with the director .
A street in Brussels was named after him (Promenade Jacques Ledoux / Jacques Ledoux Wandeling).
literature
- Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell : Jacques Ledoux: 1921-88. In: Cinema Journal Vol. 28, No. 3, 1989, pp. 4-7; preview
- Lothar R. Just: Film-Jahrbuch 1989. Heyne, Munich, 1990, ISBN 3-453-03012-5 .
Web links
- Portrait: Cinémathèque, son doux souci ( Memento from April 22, 2002 in the Internet Archive ), interview in the Cinergie
- Jacques Ledoux, fondateur d'EXPERMNTL , interview of December 22, 1967, 5 minutes, on sonuma.be
Footnotes
- ↑ a b La promenade Jacques Ledoux (Jacques Ledouxwandeling) - 1090 Jette , eBru.be
- ^ A b c Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell : Jacques Ledoux: 1921-88. In: Cinema Journal Vol. 28, No. 3, 1989, pp. 4-7; preview
- ↑ EXPRMNTL on monoskop.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ledoux, Jacques |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Silberberg, Jankiel Mendel (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian film historian and archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 6, 1988 |
| Place of death | Brussels |