Designed for the hands-on enjoyment of children of all ages, the Brussels Toy Museum (Le Musée du Jouet de Bruxelles) is a sprawling collection of 25,000 toys owned by the 77-year-old André Raemdonck, a ceaselessly dedicated collector who has read 1,200 books on the subject in the course of amassing his hoard over 35 years. A tender and cheerful portrait of ageing, obsession and dedication, Sunday, We’ll See shows how a playful spirit can transcend the advancing years.
‘Museum’ should rhyme with ‘amusement’: the credo of a toy collector
Director: Sophie B Jacques
Producer: Harold Beaulieu
26 June 2015
videoSports and games
The magical place in France where spinning wood tops are still made by hand
4 minutes
videoArt
A puppeteer makes sense of an overwhelming world by shrinking it down to size
5 minutes
videoIllness and disease
Moved by my father: a hallucinatory animated meditation on the body in motion
9 minutes
videoArt
Long before internet posts of cute animals, there were Victorian taxidermy tableaux
19 minutes
videoDesign and fashion
Household items are reborn in a ‘visual symphony of everyday objects’
11 minutes
videoSports and games
Havana’s streets become racetracks in this exhilarating portrait of children at play
5 minutes
videoBiography and memoir
A young French boy leaves forever the African village that is his home
10 minutes
videoArchaeology
New York’s 300-year-old trash becomes treasure in the hands of an urban archaeologist
23 minutes
videoLife stages
Nearing death, a grandfather bequeaths a profound secret to his grandson
16 minutes