Eric Pauwels
Born: 1953-11-02 in Antwerp, Belgium
Known For: Directing
Biography
Filmmaker, writer and film lecturer Eric Pauwels started his career with what he calls ‘cinéma mémoire’, or ethnographic documentary. He obtained his PHD in cinematography in Paris with a documentary on the ‘possessed’ in Indonesia. Afterwards, eager to step out of his role of being a spectator, Pauwels begins to make dance videos and works of fiction. The latter are so-called ‘half films’: half documentary, half fiction. But which distance does one keep to one’s subjects? Pauwels’ answer is clear: eliminate the distance and become a subject amongst your subjects. For him, cinema and life should ideally coincide; fiction should penetrate documentary.
Filmography
2019
- Journal de septembre ... (Writer)
2016
- The Second Night ... (Director)
- To Split or not to Split ... (Director)
2010
- The Dreamed Films as Self/Narrator
2000
- Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter ... (Director)
1995
- The fragility of appearances ... (Director)
1992
- Letter to Jean Rouch ... (Director)
1991
- The River Banks ... (Director)
1990
- Trois danses hongroises de Brahms ... (Director of Photography)
1989
- The Iconographic Journey: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian ... (Cinematography)
1986
- Violin Fase ... (Director)
- Hamlet ou les métamorphoses du jeu ... (Director)
- Un film ... (Director)
- Improvisation ... (Director)