Marcel Broodthaers Movies

The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the...

Marcel Broodthaers’ film and book, both titled A Voyage on the North Sea which were distributed together as part and parcel of the same...

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

Illustrates what initially seems to be a regular game of tic-tac-toe. As the film progresses, the text diverges from the image, moving from...

The film shows Marcel Broodthaers trying to write while the rain constantly washes away the ink. In the final scene, during which the artist gives up...

Berlin scenery, intercut with scenes of Broodthaers smoking, reading, eating and daydreaming.

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

Broodthaers’s first film, Clef d’Horloge was made using a borrowed camera and some film stock that he had been given. It was shot at the...

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

The film purports to be the second version of a (fictional) film made by Baudelaire in 1850 in memory of his (actual) voyage across the Pacific. It...

A documentation of Marcel Broodthaers's exhibition Le Corbeau et le Renard at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp.

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

The figure of wax to which the title alludes is that of philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), one of the founders of the University of...

Animation of Marcel B.'s signature

This is one of a series of films that Broodthaers made on the subject of the pipe, a reference to the work of René Magritte. A static camera...