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Born November 2, 1953 · Antwerp, Belgium
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.

Journal de septembre
2019
To Split or not to Split
2016

The Second Night
2016

The Dreamed Films
2010

Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter
2000

Pour Toujours
1998

The fragility of appearances
1995

Letter to Jean Rouch
1992

The River Banks
1991

Trois danses hongroises de Brahms
1990

The Iconographic Journey: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
1989
Face à Face
1988

Violin Fase
1986

Un film
1986

Hamlet ou les métamorphoses du jeu
1986

Improvisation
1986
Rites de Possession en Asie du Sud-Est
1986