Eric Pauwels
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1953-11-02 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Antwerp, Belgium
Also known As
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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 docu...
Acting
2010
as Self/Narrator
Production
1992
as Director
1986
as Director
2000
as Director
1990
as Director
1990
as Director of Photography
2019
as Writer
2016
as Director
2010
as Director
1989
1989
1989
as Cinematography
2000
as Director of Photography
2000
2010
as Writer
2016
as Writer
2019
as Director
2019
as Director of Photography
2019
as Producer
1991
as Director
1986
as Director
2016
as Director
1991
as Screenplay
1991
as Producer
1995
as Director
1995
as Writer
1992
as Writer
1986
as Director
1986
as Writer
1990
as Writer
1986
as Director
1986
as Director
1988
as Director
1998
as Director
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