Henri d'Ursel

Henri d'Ursel was born in Brussels on 18 November 1900, the son of Duke Robert d'Ursel. In the twenties he lived in Paris, frequented the Surrealists and the avant-garde filmmakers, and appeared as an extra in a film by Man Ray. Back in Belgium, he created the Prix de l'image in 1937, a forerunner of experimental film festivals, then after the war founded the ciné-club of the Séminaire des Arts. Made a duke in 1955, he was vice-president of the Royal Belgian Film Archive for twenty-five years and died in May 1974.

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• CinemaThe PearlLa PerleHenri d'Ursel · 1929Cinema