Eric Pauwels
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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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The Dreamed Films (2010)
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Improvisation (1986)
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Un film (1986)
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Violin Fase (1986)
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Journal de septembre (2019)
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The fragility of appearances (1995)
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Trois danses hongroises de Brahms (1990)
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Pour Toujours (1998)
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The Second Night (2016)
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Face à Face (1988)
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Hamlet ou les métamorphoses du jeu (1986)
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The Iconographic Journey: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (1989)
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The River Banks (1991)
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Letter to Jean Rouch (1992)
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Rites de Possession en Asie du Sud-Est (1986)
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Face à face (part of Pas de Danse) (1989)
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Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter (2000)
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To Split or not to Split (2016)
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