Known For
Directing
Born
Nov 02, 1953
Place of Birth
Antwerp, Belgium
Credits
19 titles
Eric Pauwels
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.
Known For
Filmography
Journal de septembre
Writer
Cabin trilogy : a conversation
To Split or not to Split
Director
The Second Night
Director
The Dreamed Films
Self/Narrator
Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter
Director
Pour Toujours
Director
The fragility of appearances
Director
Letter to Jean Rouch
Director
The River Banks
Director
Trois danses hongroises de Brahms
Director of Photography
The Iconographic Journey: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
Director
Face à face (part of Pas de Danse)
Director
Face à Face
Director
Violin Fase
Director
Un film
Director
Improvisation
Director
Hamlet ou les métamorphoses du jeu
Director
Rites de Possession en Asie du Sud-Est
Director