Roland Lethem
Roland Lethem (born 1942) is a Belgian filmmaker and writer. Influenced at his beginnings by Buñuel , Cocteau , the surrealists and by the Japanese cinema ( Seijun Suzuki , Ishirō Honda , Kōji Wakamatsu , Yoko Ono ), stunned by the Festival of the experimental film of Knokke in 1967 and by May 1968, Roland Lethem wants to push the people to look at the things of which they say they are freed, it's to say to place them in front of their responsibilities. Even if sometimes the results leaves much to be desired, the idea of each one of his films is seductive and exemplary. A fact is certain, his films are disturbing, they are sometimes unpleasant to look at. The narcissistic and provocative play of the debut turned itself into direct, visual, and verbal insult, and in slandering. His dream was one moment to be able to film the intimate life of the pope or the sexual plays of the Belgian sovereigns. Through violence, pornography and cruelty of some scenes, Roland Lethem is a gentle, generous man with a lot of humor. The work of Roland Lethem evolves, becomes political, ecological. The Ballad of the cursed lovers, 1966 or The Bloodthirsty Fairy, 1968 still tell stories. The Sufferings of a ravaged Egg , 1967, poem of love in several parts (Étoiles/Stars, Corps/Bodies, Hymen/Marriage or Hymen (ambiguous in French), Oeuf/Egg) dedicated to all who conceive and to all who are conceived, irresistibly makes you think at the Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye, 1928) of Georges Bataille .
Jardins clandestins
Cold Head
(Man in orgy)
The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg
La Double Insomnie
In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx
(Man in orgy (archive footage))
Le sexe enragé
(L'homme dans le lit)
Sprookje, of l'homme-objet
Le Vice et la Vertu
(Man)
Super huître
Lili au lit
(The father)
Grève et pets
Cocktail Morlock
(Self)
Le journal de Joseph M.
(Génie Morlock)
Cinéma
2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
(Self (archive footage))
Beef Cattle
(vagrant)
Cinématon
(N°161)
Cinématon XVII
(N°161)
Jean-Gina B.
(apostle)
EXPRMNTL
(Himself)
La tête d'un frère
Marilyn's La(te)st Love Song
Pieces of Identity
(Night Club manager)
Crime contre le cinéma
The Bloodthirsty Fairy
(Director)
Le Petit Bonhomme Vert
(Director)
The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg
(Director)
Le vampire de la cinémathèque
(Director)
In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx
(Director)
La Double Insomnie
(Director)
Le sexe enragé
(Director)
Le sexe enragé
(Writer)
The Bloodthirsty Fairy
(Writer)
The Crazed Sex of the Bloodthirsty Fairy
(Director)
Lili au lit
(Director)
Lili au lit
(Writer)
La ballade des amants maudits
(Director)
La ballade des amants maudits
(Writer)
Bunch of Assholes!
(Director)
Bunch of Assholes!
(Writer)
Bunch of Assholes!
(Producer)
Bunch of Assholes!
(Editor)
Le Vice et la Vertu
(Director)
Le Vice et la Vertu
(Writer)
Comme le temps paxe vite
(Director)
Comme le temps paxe vite
(Writer)
Super huître
(Director)
Super huître
(Writer)
Super huître
(Editor)
La Saga de Madiana
(Director)
La Saga de Madiana
(Writer)
La Saga de Madiana
(Producer)
Hostel Party
(Director)
Hostel Party
(Screenplay)
Gourmandises
(Director)
Gourmandises
(Writer)
Pierre
(Editor)
Amer
(Thanks)
Thalamus Lives!
(Director)
Gerda Flower Powers
(Director)
La tête d'un frère
(Director)
La tête d'un frère
(Writer)
Super bite
(Director)
Super bite
(Writer)
Super bite
(Producer)
Super bite
(Cinematography)
Super bite
(Editor)
Marilyn's La(te)st Love Song
(Director)
Marilyn's La(te)st Love Song
(Writer)
Trois pierres
(Writer)
Trois pierres
(Director)
In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx
(Writer)