Boris Lehman
Boris Lehman (born 3 March 1944, Lausanne), is a Belgian author-filmmaker of experimental cinema.
Boris LehmanLehman initially studied piano, but in the early 1960s became interested in photography and cinema. In 1966, after graduating in Film Studies from the Ins*ut National Supérieur des Arts du spectacle, Brussels, he became a film enthusiast and critic, contributing reviews to weekly publications and magazines. He began making films between 1965 and 1983 when working for Club Antonin Artaud, a readjustment day centre for the mentally ill, using cinema as a therapeutic tool with patients. He later founded the film-based organisations Cinélibre, Cinédit, and AJC, the young filmmakers' workshop.
He has *isted Henri Storck with the films Secret Forest of Africa and Fêtes de Belgique, and Chantal Akerman with Jeanne Dielman. He has also collaborated with filmmakers Patrick Van Antwerpen, Jean-Marie Buchet and Gérard Courant. As an actor, Lehman has played roles in Brussels-transit (dir. Samy Szlingerbaum 1980), C* K (dir. Maurice Rabinowicz 1970), and Les Filles en Orange (dir. Yaël André 2003).
Initially working with amateurs, he has produced 400 films in Super 8, 16:mm or video, as either shorts, features, do*entaries, journals or autobiographies, and has shot 300,000 photographs. He wrote the libretto of Fanny Tran's opera ″ La véritable histoire de la Dame Blanche"(2020). Lehman's cinematic work has little public recognition but has been shown at numerous festivals and cine clubs.
Films
- La Clé du champ, 1963
- Histoire d'un déménagement, 1967
- Catalogue, 1968
- Le Centre et la Cl*e, 1970
- Ne pas Stagner, 1973
- Knokke Out, 1974
- Album 1, 1974
- Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense, 1978
- Symphonie, 1979
- Couple, Regards, Positions, 1983
- Portrait du peintre dans son atelier, 1985
- Muet comme une carpe, 1987
- Masque, 1987
- L'Homme de Terre, 1989
- Cinématon (juif) de Gérard Courant, 1989
- A la recherche du lieu de ma naissance, 1990
- La Chute des Heures, 1990
- Babel / Lettre à mes amis restés en Belgique, 1991
- Tentatives de se décrire, 1989-2005
- Je suis fier d'être Belge, 1993
- Leçon de vie, 1994
- Homme portant son film le plus lourd, 1994
- La Division de mon temps, 1994
- Un jour comme les autres, 1994
- Check-Up (Etat de Santé), 1994
- Un Bruit qui rend sourd, 1995
- La Dernière s(cène), 1995
- Mes Entretiens filmés, 1996
- Mon voyage en Allemagne, 1997
- Mon voyage à Moscou, 1997
- L‘image et le monde, 1998
- A comme Adrienne, 2000
- Histoire de ma vie racontée par mes photographies, 2001
- Mes 7 lieux, 2001
- Homme portant, 2003
References
External links
- Official Web site
- Ins*ut National Supérieur des Arts du spectacle. Retrieved 2 April 2011
- Club Antonin Artaud. Retrieved 2 April 2011