Eric Pauwels

Eric Pauwels

Born: November 2, 1953
in Antwerp, Belgium
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.

Movies for Eric Pauwels...

The Dreamed Films
Title: The Dreamed Films
Character: Self/Narrator
Released: March 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwels' meditation on dream, travel and film.