Houses of Poverty (1936)

Henri Storck’s militant short on Depression-era Belgium, set in Walloon slums on the outskirts of a prosperous city. Staged vignettes expose substandard housing, overcrowding, and numbed survival through claustrophobic, frame-filling images; a coda on slum clearance and “garden city” rehousing offers guarded hope.

• Year: 1936
• Genres: Documentary, Drama
• Countries: Belgium
• Languages: French
• Runtime: 29 min