Herring fishing

After Images d'Ostend, Une pêche au hareng is the second of Henri
Storck's founding films. The first opened the way for the avant-garde,
and the lyrical and abstract aspects of a subject that can be
established by a use of image and montage that is both rigorous and
sensitive, one could even say poetic, if one takes the word in its
strictest sense. In the second, the North Sea is still present but is
observed with the eye of a documentary maker, which is the second path
followed by the filmmaker. To watch men at work, capture their
gestures, enter into the cycle of production, show the machines and the
tools, to create a sort of anthropology of manual work became one of
the themes of Henri Storck's films. Une pêche au hareng is a silent
film interspersed with informative title cards that precede and explain
the action and situations. A ship leaves the port of Ostend, the nets
are cast, but when it enters French territorial waters it is inspected
by the coast guards. This miniature naval battle, an incident provoked
by the filming, ends without problems for the filmmaker. The images and
shots play on proximity, bringing together the fishermen's faces, the
ropes, the sea, the flash of the fish, and the baskets full of the
sea’s bounty.

Critics:

"The particularity of Une pêche au hareng is that it has taken on an
historic character. This short film can be compared to Drifters, the
only film made by John Grierson – ideologist or prophet or moving force
behind the documentary movement in Great Britain. The film was made at
about the same time and on an identical subject, apart from the
difference in latitude."
继《奥斯坦德的影像》之后，《捕捞青鱼》成为亨利斯托克的第二部奠基性作品。第一部开启了对主题前卫、抒情和抽象方面的表现之门。主题的建立可以依靠对影像和剪辑严谨而富于感性的运用，如果从词语本意上看，甚至可以称之为诗意的运用。第二部影片仍然以北海为拍摄点，但却以一个纪录片导演的眼睛在进行观察，这是作者走的另外一条路线。对那些在工作着的人给予关注，捕捉他们的姿势，加入他们的生产流程，展示机器和生产工具，对手工劳动进行人类学考究成为亨利斯托克的习惯性主题之一。《捕捞青鱼》是一部默片，其间穿插标题卡对接下来的场景活动进行解说。一条渔船离开奥斯坦德港口，撒下渔网，当船进入法国海域时却遭到海上督察的巡检。一场小型海战开始了，因船上有摄影机拍摄而引发冲突，但最终有惊无险。镜头多为近景拍摄，将渔民的脸、绳索、大海、闪现的鱼儿以及满载着大海赐予人类的财富交织一处。
《捕捞青鱼》的特色在于它的历史意义。这部短片可以与John Gierson拍摄的唯一一部影片《漂网渔船》（Drifters）进行比较。这个思想家及预言家是英国历史上纪录片运动背后的重要推手。两部影片于同时期拍摄，同样的主题，唯一的区别在于拍摄海域不同。”

4444(创建者)