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Eric Pauwels
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.
As director
Journal de septembre
The Second Night
To Split or not to Split
The Dreamed Films
Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter
Pour Toujours
The fragility of appearances
Letter to Jean Rouch
The River Banks
Trois danses hongroises de Brahms
The Iconographic Journey: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
Face à face (part of Pas de Danse)
Face à Face
Un film
Violin Fase
Hamlet ou les métamorphoses du jeu
Improvisation
Rites de Possession en Asie du Sud-Est
