Hardcover catalogue published on the occasion of what would have been the hundredth birthday of Jacques Ledoux (CINEMATEK, Brussels 2021)
119 pages / Illustrations in colour and black and white / All texts in French, Dutch or English
On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, CINEMATEK pays tribute to the curator Jacques Ledoux, thanks to whom the Royal Belgian Film Archive became an internationally renowned institution. Jacques Ledoux, born in 1921, built up one of the world's most important film collections and film documentation. With the daily screenings at the Film Museum, he saved films from oblivion and from extinction. Aware of the historical richness of the 7th art, he was also an important driver of new creations. This book brings together exclusive testimonies collected in 2021 from historians such as David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson or Bernard Eisenschitz and former staff members of the Film Archive. A testimony by Paul Davay and a transcription of an interview with Jacques Ledoux, both previously unpublished, complete this work, along with the republication of a biographical note by Gabrielle Claes. The book is richly illustrated with archival images.