Eric Pauwels
Directing
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
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movieJournal de septembre
2019
Director
movieThe Second Night
2016
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movieThe Dreamed Films
2010
Director
moviePour Toujours
1998
Director
movieLetter to Jean Rouch
1992
Director
movieThe River Banks
1991
Director
Face à Face
1988
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movieViolin Fase
1986
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movieUn film
1986
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movieImprovisation
1986
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Writing10
movieThe River Banks
1991
Screenplay
Camera3
movieJournal de septembre
2019
Director of Photography
movieLetter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter
2000
Director of Photography
movieTrois danses hongroises de Brahms
1990
Director of Photography