Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 05, 1942
Place of Birth
Etterbeek, Belgium
Credits
40 titles
Roland Lethem
Biography
Roland Lethem (born 1942) is a Belgian filmmaker and writer. Influenced at his beginnings by Buñuel , Cocteau , the surrealists and by the Japanese cinema ( Seijun Suzuki , Ishirō Honda , Kōji Wakamatsu , Yoko Ono ), stunned by the Festival of the experimental film of Knokke in 1967 and by May 1968, Roland Lethem wants to push the people to look at the things of which they say they are freed, it's to say to place them in front of their responsibilities. Even if sometimes the results leaves much to be desired, the idea of each one of his films is seductive and exemplary. A fact is certain, his films are disturbing, they are sometimes unpleasant to look at. The narcissistic and provocative play of the debut turned itself into direct, visual, and verbal insult, and in slandering. His dream was one moment to be able to film the intimate life of the pope or the sexual plays of the Belgian sovereigns. Through violence, pornography and cruelty of some scenes, Roland Lethem is a gentle, generous man with a lot of humor. The work of Roland Lethem evolves, becomes political, ecological. The Ballad of the cursed lovers, 1966 or The Bloodthirsty Fairy, 1968 still tell stories. The Sufferings of a ravaged Egg , 1967, poem of love in several parts (Étoiles/Stars, Corps/Bodies, Hymen/Marriage or Hymen (ambiguous in French), Oeuf/Egg) dedicated to all who conceive and to all who are conceived, irresistibly makes you think at the Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye, 1928) of Georges Bataille .
Known For
Filmography
Crime contre le cinéma
EXPRMNTL
Himself
Le Petit Bonhomme Vert
Director
Jardins clandestins
Amer
Thanks
2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
Self (archive footage)
Gourmandises
Writer
Le journal de Joseph M.
Génie Morlock
Pieces of Identity
Night Club manager
Cinéma
Hostel Party
Director
Jean-Gina B.
apostle
Cinématon XVII
N°161
Cocktail Morlock
Self
La Saga de Madiana
Writer
Trois pierres
Writer
Beef Cattle
vagrant
The Crazed Sex of the Bloodthirsty Fairy
Director
Cinématon
N°161
Marilyn's La(te)st Love Song
Pierre
Editor
Grève et pets
La tête d'un frère
Super bite
Director
In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx
Man in orgy (archive footage)
Super huître
Comme le temps paxe vite
Director
Le Vice et la Vertu
Man
Thalamus Lives!
Director
Sprookje, of l'homme-objet
Gerda Flower Powers
Director
Le vampire de la cinémathèque
Director
Le sexe enragé
L'homme dans le lit
Cold Head
Man in orgy
Bunch of Assholes!
Director
The Bloodthirsty Fairy
Director
The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg
La ballade des amants maudits
Writer
Lili au lit
The father
La Double Insomnie