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.
Letter to Jean Rouch
(Script)
Letter to Jean Rouch
(Director)
Un film
(Director)
Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter
(Director)
Trois danses hongroises de Brahms
(Director of Photography)
Trois danses hongroises de Brahms
(Director)
Journal de septembre
(Writer)
The Second Night
(Director)
The Dreamed Films
(Director)
The iconographic journey: the martyrdom of San Sebastian
(Director)
The iconographic journey: the martyrdom of San Sebastian
(Sound)
The iconographic journey: the martyrdom of San Sebastian
(Writer)
The iconographic journey: the martyrdom of San Sebastian
(Cinematography)
The iconographic journey: the martyrdom of San Sebastian
(Producer)
Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter
(Director of Photography)
Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter
(Writer)
The Dreamed Films
(Writer)
The Second Night
(Writer)
Journal de septembre
(Director of Photography)
Journal de septembre
(Producer)
Journal de septembre
(Director)
The River Banks
(Director)
Violin Fase
(Director)
To Split or not to Split
(Director)