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