ABSTRACT

This article presents a quantitative analysis of Belgian fiction film production between 2000 and 2019. Analysing an extensive database, it explores the current state of Belgian cinema, which is characterised on the one hand by a strong international dimension, and on the other hand by two largely separate intranational industries: a Flemish and a francophone Belgian film industry. Despite the persistent gap between the two industries, a certain rapprochement seems to be manifesting recently. This industrial analysis is preceded by an exploration of the conceptual and practical difficulties and limitations that arise when trying to determine whether a film can be labelled (partly) ‘Belgian’, ‘Flemish’ and/or ‘francophone Belgian’. Emanating from the complexity of the Belgian situation, these difficulties reveal some of the theoretical contradictions of the concept of national cinema. As such, departing from a quantitative study of Belgian cinema, this article also provides an original contribution to ongoing debates on the concept of national cinema.

摘要

本文对 2000 年至 2019 年间比利时小说电影的制作进行了定量分析。通过分析一个庞大的数据库，它探讨了比利时电影的现状，其特点是一方面具有强大的国际维度，另一方面具有两个很大程度上独立的国内产业：佛兰芒语和法语比利时电影业。尽管这两个行业之间存在着持续的差距，但最近似乎出现了某种和解。在此工业分析之前，探索了在试图确定一部电影是否可以（部分）被标记为“比利时”、“佛兰芒语”和/或“法语比利时人”时出现的概念和实践困难和限制。由于比利时局势的复杂性，这些困难揭示了民族电影概念的一些理论矛盾。因此，从对比利时电影的定量研究出发，本文还为正在进行的关于国家电影概念的辩论提供了原创性的贡献。