In 1955, the Ghent group Studio E is founded as a ‘smallfilm working group’ to professionalise via smallfilm club into a non-profit organisation in 1968. Studio E presents itself as a centre for art films and films about art. From the 1970s onwards, they manifest themselves more explicitly as an autonomous art film group. This becomes most emphatically visible in the separation from the Verbond der Amateur Kineasten van Oost-Vlaanderen (V.A.K.O.V.).