Eric Pauwels

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1953-11-02 (71 years old)

Place of Birth Antwerp, Belgium

Eric Pauwels

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.

Known For

Director

2019
2016
The Second Night

as Director

2016
2010
The Dreamed Films

as Director

1992
1991
The River Banks

as Director

1986
Un film

as Director

1986
Violin Fase

as Director

Camera

2019
Journal de septembre

as Director of Photography

2000
Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter

as Director of Photography

1990
Trois danses hongroises de Brahms

as Director of Photography

Actor

2010
The Dreamed Films

as Self/Narrator