Director

Eric Pauwels

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Directed movies: 13Directed series: 0All crew credits: 14

TMDB ID: 1065356

IMDb ID: nm1062779

Known for: Directing

Born: November 2, 1953

Age: 72

Place of birth: Antwerp, Belgium

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1986 - 2019

Years active: 34

Wikidata: Q3056374

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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.

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