- 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 ...
- In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.
- Storck was an actor in two key films of the history of the cinema: Jean Vigo's Zéro de conduite (1933) in the role of the priest, and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay Commercial, 1080 Brussels from 1975. ( In 2022, the film was given the distinction of being voted as Sight & Sound's "greatest film of all time". The film ranked number 1 on the critics' poll), in the role of a customer of the prostitute.
- He was Doctor honoris causa of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1978) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (1995).
- Storck proved that you do not have to harm your own career by working together with other people to promote the documentary sector.
- In 1938, with Andre Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen, he founded the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Royal Belgian Film Archive), and in 1964 he formed together with Gian Vittorio Baldi and John Grierson the "International Association of Documentary Filmmakers".
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