Boris Lehman
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Boris Lehman, is a Belgian author-filmmaker of experimental cinema. 
Lehman initially studied piano, but in the early 1960s became interested in photography and cinema. In 1966, after graduating in Film Studies from the Institut 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 assisted 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), Canal 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, documentaries, journals or autobiographies, and has shot 300,000 photographs. Lehman's cinematic work has little public recognition but has been shown at festivals and cine clubs.
He has assisted Henri Storck
Henri Storck
Henri Storck was a Belgian author, film-maker and documentarist.In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens, Misère au Borinage, a film about the miners in the Borinage area. In 1938, with Andre Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen, he founded the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique...
with the films Secret Forest of Africa and Fêtes de Belgique, and Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman is a Belgian film director, artist, and professor of film at the European Graduate School. Akerman's best-known film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles , exemplifies a dedication to the ellipses of conventional narrative cinema.-Early life:Akerman was born to...
with Jeanne Dielman. He has also collaborated with filmmakers Patrick Van Antwerpen
Patrick Van Antwerpen
Patrick Van Antwerpen is a Belgian author-filmmaker born on 17 May 1944 in Ixelles and deceased in this commune on 3 December 1990.- Filmographie :* Jules, Julien, Julienne * La baraque * Le banc...
, Jean-Marie Buchet
Jean-Marie Buchet
Jean-Marie Buchet is a Belgian author and filmmaker.-Early life & education:At the age of twelve, Buchet said to a school-fellow, after having failed at an examination: "Later I will make cinema!"...
and Gérard Courant. As an actor, Lehman has played roles in Brussels-transit (dir. Samy Szlingerbaum
Samy Szlingerbaum
Samy Szlingerbaum was a Belgian screenwriter, actor and film director.Szlingerbaum began his career as a director by co-directing the 1973 film Le 15/8 with Chantal Akerman. Then in 1980 he wrote and directed Brussels Transit, a feature film in Yiddish which tells of his parents moving to Brussels...
1980), Canal K (dir. Maurice Rabinowicz
Maurice Rabinowicz
Maurice Rabinowicz is a Belgian film director and writer.He studied theatre at the Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle in Brussels, graduating in 1970. His style of film-making has been described as Brechtian...
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, documentaries, journals or autobiographies, and has shot 300,000 photographs. Lehman's cinematic work has little public recognition but has been shown at festivals and cine clubs.
Films
- La Clé du champ, 1963
- Histoire d'un déménagement, 1967
- Catalogue (film)|Catalogue, 1968
- Le Centre et la Classe, 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 (film)|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
External links
- Official Web site
- Institut National Supérieur des Arts du spectacle. Retrieved 2 April 2011
- Club Antonin Artaud. Retrieved 2 April 2011