James Ensor, de Man achter het Masker plot
Seventy-five years ago, James Ensor, one of the most intriguing, talented and idiosyncratic artists Belgium has ever known, died. In this documentary, Sam Louwyck takes the viewer on a tour through his hometown of Ostend. Together with experts and artists such as Xavier Tricot, Herwig Todts and Kati Heck, he searches for the motifs of James Baron Ensor. Who was that mysterious figure with his long white beard and black overcoat? The difficult years at the art academy, his mother's cabinet of curiosities in the Vlaanderenstraat, his father's drama, his love for the light of Ostend: the combination of these puzzle pieces allowed Ensor to evolve into the most important Belgian modern painter.