Boris Lehman
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Biography: Boris Lehman, born March 3rd 1944 in Lausanne (Switzerland), is a Belgian filmmaker whose work is oriented towards experimental cinema, cinematographic essay, filmed news and documentary.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Lausanne, Switzerland
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Une Histoire de Cheveux (Sibérie)
Overview: Histoire de mes cheveux ended with a shot where I found myself locked in a concentration camp. I had said shortly before that I was glad I finally arrived home. A song of hope, however, echoed with a fantasized happy ending (Hollywood kiss) and a song that heralded spring. In reality the film did not end there. There was a second part to this story. The first tells the story of the condemned man, the second that of the survivor. And so the film had to start with a scene that could never be shot where I was escaping from the camp.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-11
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The Dreamed Films
Overview: Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwels' meditation on dream, travel and film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-18
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Jardins clandestins
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-08-24
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Story of My Hair
Overview: The story of my hair can be told in two lines. My hair was long and black. It has turned white. It hasn't been cut since 1982, almost thirty years ago. Story of my Hair is a journey, both in space and in time. Anyone looking for truths, whether geographical, scientific or historical, will be disappointed. After looking at real events and real places the film very soon distances itself from them, preferring poetry and fiction. In his own fashion the auteur has combined the story of Samson and Delilah, the journey of those condemned to the death camps, the science of hair and a few thoughts about the meaning and fragility of life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Masque
Overview: Boris Lehman's funereal mask is constructed when he is alive (which therefore requires him to construct a rudimentary canal to breathe through the plaster).
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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War is Looming
Overview: This film takes a look at the French concentration camp at Rivesaltes. It does not deal with the site of memory but rather memories of the site through the concrete and physical data visible on the ground perceived as a holed-out space mined by disappearance, in particular the buildings, which subsist as ruins. This film is less preoccupied with drawing lessons from history than fuelling the present with a history that, like a blinding mirror, is of the utmost concern.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-01
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Conversation avec Boris Lehman
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-07
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L'Odyssée
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-01-02
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My Seven Places
Overview: Seven apartments, seven times of life: one film. A classic diary film, Boris Lehman intimately chronicles his own existence and that of objects and places that became an essential part of his life. A truly cinematic experience that gives us a highly European sense of space, time and history itself.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-08
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Lapses, Regrets and Qualms
Overview: A day in the life of director Boris Lehman: he wanders from cafe to bookshop, cinema to museum, writer to musician, and into the storeroom of the film archive... He celebrates his birthday in an alleyway, with a friend, and finishes his journey with an escapade to Bruges and a stroll by the North Sea. The camera plays dirty tricks and the sound recorder gets carried away, to the point that both are clearly telling Boris to stop filming. Yet he persists…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-15
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365 Day Project
Overview: This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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Portrait of the painter at his workshop
Overview: The film is the cinematic encounter of two looks (that of the painter Arié Mandelbaum and that of the filmmaker Boris Lehman) with one voice: that of the singer Esther Lamandier (who goes by the same name as Arié: Mandelbaum means «I'amandier»).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Déconstruction
Overview: The short film is like a journal page of film making. On making a film (in 1966) in Barcelona. On assembling together surviving fragments of the film, but not as a vestige of something for ever lost, but rather an occasion for making a new film of all sorts of fragments: images in Barcelona (in 2008/9) that echo images of the older film; images of making films (Hanoun's own, Boris Lehman's; other friends'); images of a storm in Biarritz; fragments of conversations...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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My Conversations on Film
Overview: This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and a psychoanalyst – discuss what cinema has meant to them, what it is and what it could be and, implicitly, how it has changed over the 18 years in which this film was shot. Director Boris Lehman leads the charge, drawing in moments of absurdist humour and inventive camera work; he keeps things raw and spontaneous. His encounters with the now much-missed Jean Rouch and Stephen Dwoskin are particularly touching and stand testament to their personal playfulness and candour. An engaging, absorbing, epic odyssey of a movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-13
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Trying to Describe Oneself
Overview: Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and journey, something between documentary and feature film. Finally, a portrait of Boris Lehman from 1989 to 1995, part II of BABEL.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-04
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Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Story of My Life Told by My Photographs
Overview: Through many photographs, he tells the story and allows his story to be told by those photographed. This is where the brilliant documentary reversal takes place.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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La Marelle et les Epouvantails
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-22
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The Image, The World
Overview: In a burlesque mode, the director tries to deflate the world (realized here by a globe), to level it, to put its three dimensions in two. To do this, he fights against the material and the ball, embraces it, lies down on it, twists and tramples it. Illusory victory or vain efforts?
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Couple, regards, positions
Overview: A two-way mirror. Water and fire. Water extinguishes fire, and fire boils away water. There are many difficulties preventing them from understanding one another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-27
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The Dead Tree
Overview: The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South America.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Hérésie pour Magritte IV
Overview: Ulrich Gregor is filmed in his office at the Berlin Film Festival surrounded by the festival's poster (The Great Family of René Magritte).
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-04-04
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Le journal de Joseph M.
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-02-15
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Earthen Man
Overview: From the construction of a sculpture "life size" in the earth, the director Boris Lehman imagines a story that staged a sculptor (Paulus Brun) struggling with an impossible order. The man of land is "golemise", takes life in the countryside, and ends up dying on an opera stage.
Genres: Fantasy Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Last Supper
Overview: The dialogue is based on the Gospel according to St John. The apostles are played by friends (the disciples) of Boris Lehman, most of them movie-makers, filmed in front of the last house still standing opposite the new buildings of the European Union. Judas is played by Claudio Pazienza and Christ by Boris Lehman. The film was shot in a matter of hours on a Sunday morning, with an incredible decor in a street that had been razed to the ground by property developers, just before the police arrived.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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Man Carrying
Overview: The man carrying his body, his reels of film, his bag and his old Nikon, is Boris Lehman, he's also Sisyphus, Jesus Christ, and Ixion as told by Alfred Jarry in La Chandelle Verte. An essay on heaviness and lightness. The carrying man would like to fly, vanish into thin air, into light. When he meets another machine-man, who carries electronic pictures, his dream will come true.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-30
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Alterations and Repairs
Overview: Portrait of Richard Kenigsman by Boris Lehman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-12
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Red Mudh
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-27
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Vie
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-14
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Boris Lehman à Toulouse
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-06-12
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Brussels-Transit
Overview: Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II was in Yiddish. This Belgian-based filmmaker, deeply impacted by New York experimental cinema, gives us a masterful blend of powerful drama and stark documentary to tell the story of postwar European Jewry. Home, as it had been, no longer exists, and all that Samy’s family wants is a place in which to sink new roots.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: yi
Release Date: 1982-02-18
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Cinématon IV
Overview: Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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Paradox
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium
Overview: "Babel / Letter to my Friends who Stayed in Belgium" narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of dramatist Antonin Artaud and visit the Tarahumara people of Mexico. This is a film about intimacy and friendship. Written in the first person, it places Boris and Brussels in the center of the universe, here represented by the crazy, vertiginous, endless spiral of the biblical Tower. It is Boris's diary and self-portrait. He plays himself on screen (as do the cast of a hundred who also allowed themselves to be "Babelized")
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Jean-Gina B.
Overview: This film is based on the true story of Jean Bella, who served as an officer in the Belgian Marine while being convinced, from an early age, that he was in fact a woman. Director Jean-Pol Ferbus follows Jean Bella and makes him talk about his life, psychological and spiritual experiences and reveals the true poet who remained undisclosed for most of this person's life. The film ultimately isn't about transexuality but about loneliness one can experience when he/she feels very deeply that she/he belongs to the two sexes and this in a deep, almost religious, fashion, to such an extent that sexuality itself is being erased from one's life. Jean-Gina Bella is a woman in the body of a man who bravely lived a life on the sea, eventually fighting the elements, talking to God when lost on the immense solitary ocean. This testimony is a very touching and poetic one.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Autour de Jeanne Dielman
Overview: During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Cinématon n°468 : Boris Lehman
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EXPRMNTL
Overview: Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Festival of Film and the Arts’ in 1949, organised in part by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium. To celebrate cinema’s 50 year existence, they put together a side program showcasing the medium in all its shapes and forms: surrealist film, absolute film, dadaist films, abstract film,… The side program would soon become a festival in its own right: ‘EXPRMNTL’, dedicated to experimental cinema, and would become a mythical gathering of the avant-garde…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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