Belgian documentarist, founder of the Belgian Royal Film Archive in 1938. Had abandoned a career as a painter to work in the cinema from the early 1930's. Much of his later work reflected his continued fascination with painting and artists like Paul Delvaux and Leon Spillaert.
The films Storck is best remained of, are his social documentaries. The most famous is Misery in the Borinage, he made together with Joris Ivens.
He became a close friend of painters like Ensor, Permeke, Spilliaert, Tytgat and Labisse.
Storck has made almost 100 films, but in his own country, he was often restricted by the negligence of the elite for the film medium.
Art has always played a great role in his life and some of his finest documentaries are art films: Rubens, Teirlinck, The open window, Paul Delvaux, Permeke ...