Luc de Heusch

Personal Info

Known For Director

Birthday 1927-05-07

Deathday 2012-08-07 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Brussels, Belgium

Luc de Heusch

Biography

Luc de Heusch (7 May 1927 – 7 August 2012) was a Belgian filmmaker, writer, and anthropologist, professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles . His 1967 film Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. Luc de Heusch began his career in film in 1947 as assistant to Henri Storck . From 1949 to 1951 he lived in an artists' commune, the Ateliers du Marais. In 1951, under the pseudonym Luc Zangrie , he directed Perséphone , the only film produced by the CoBrA artistic movement. In 1953 and 1954 he carried out anthropological fieldwork in the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi . Like Henri Storck and Charles Dekeukeleire , he also made documentary films about the Congo. From 1955 to 1992 he was professor of social and cultural anthropology at the Free University of Brussels , later Université libre de Bruxelles.

Known For

Director

2023
2023
Lotoko

as Director

2023
2004
Ostende 1930

as Director

1968
Libre examen 1968

as Director

1961
1958
Gestes du repas

as Director

1957
1951
Perséphone

as Director

Writer

Editor

2004
Ostende 1930

as Editor

Actor