Eric Pauwels
- Directing
- November 2, 1953 · Antwerp, Belgium
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, Director
- Cabin trilogy : a conversation
- To Split or not to Split · Director
- The Second Night · Director, Writer
- The Dreamed Films · Self/Narrator, Director
- Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter · Director, Cinematography
- Pour Toujours · Director
- The fragility of appearances · Director, Writer
- Letter to Jean Rouch · Director, Writer
- The River Banks · Director, Screenplay
- Trois danses hongroises de Brahms · Director, Cinematography
- The Iconographic Journey: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian · Director, Writer
- Face à face (part of Pas de Danse) · Director
- Face à Face · Director
- Violin Fase · Director
- Un film · Director
- Hamlet ou les métamorphoses du jeu · Director, Writer
- Improvisation · Director
- Rites de Possession en Asie du Sud-Est · Director