Boris Lehman

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Boris Lehman, born March 3rd 1944 in Lausanne (Switzerland), is a Belgian filmmaker whose work is oriented towards experimental cinema, cinematographic essay, filmed news and documentary.

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Total trailers found: 71

EXPRMNTL Trailer (2016)

08 October 2016

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Festival of Film and the Arts’ in 1949, organised in part by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium.

Le ventre, un supermonde Trailer (1974)

21 September 1974

A collage film, a dialogue between mother and the unborn child, the film can be seen as a personal self-analysis by René Paquot, who dreamily delivers his conflicts with maternal, medical and religious authority.

Symphonie Trailer (1980)

05 February 1980

Symphonie mixes fiction with reality. The author, Romain Schneid, tells the story of his own claustrophobia in front of the camera when, when he was 12 years old, hiding as a Jew during the German occupation, he could not leave a tiny apartment.

Boris Lehman à Toulouse Trailer (2020)

12 June 2020

Crime contre le cinéma Trailer (2020)

05 February 2020

The episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés, Crime contre le cinéma (December 25, 2006 to December 2, 2006) is divided into four parts: Colas Ricard at Centre Pompidou, Joseph Morder at La Rochelle, the Filmer à tout prix Festival in Brussels, and Michel Nedjar and Jakobois at Centre Pompidou.

Jardins clandestins Trailer (2012)

24 August 2012

Portrait of the painter at his workshop Trailer (1985)

01 January 1985

The film is the cinematic encounter of two looks (that of the painter Arié Mandelbaum and that of the filmmaker Boris Lehman) with one voice: that of the singer Esther Lamandier (who goes by the same name as Arié: Mandelbaum means «I'amandier»).

Story of My Life Told by My Photographs Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

Through many photographs, he tells the story and allows his story to be told by those photographed. This is where the brilliant documentary reversal takes place.

The bus Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

"It's a very simple story, shot in a quiet street in Brussels. People waiting for the bus that is late, talking to each other, trusting each other, talking about the weather and giving each other practical tips.

Déconstruction Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

The short film is like a journal page of film making. On making a film (in 1966) in Barcelona. On assembling together surviving fragments of the film, but not as a vestige of something for ever lost, but rather an occasion for making a new film of all sorts of fragments: images in Barcelona (in 2008/9) that echo images of the older film; images of making films (Hanoun's own, Boris Lehman's; other friends'); images of a storm in Biarritz; fragments of conversations.

War is Looming Trailer (2011)

01 April 2011

This film takes a look at the French concentration camp at Rivesaltes. It does not deal with the site of memory but rather memories of the site through the concrete and physical data visible on the ground perceived as a holed-out space mined by disappearance, in particular the buildings, which subsist as ruins.

Marins d'eau douce Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

A wordless travel on a barge from Clabecq to Ruisbroek. This is the Boris Lehman’s student movie done for the INSAS school.

Cinématon IV Trailer (1978)

23 December 1978

Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Life Lesson Trailer (1995)

11 April 1995

To attain knowledge, man and woman had to be willing to give up their innocence," says Boris Lehman. Life Lesson is a poetic and philosophic reflection on the theme of paradise lost.

L'art de de s'egarer ou l'image du bonheur Trailer (2015)

23 May 2015

The last day of the life of German Jewish writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). The director re-routes Walter Benjamin between Cerberus and Port-Bou before his suicide.

My Conversations on Film Trailer (2013)

13 October 2013

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed.

Masque Trailer (1987)

01 January 1987

Boris Lehman's funereal mask is constructed when he is alive (which therefore requires him to construct a rudimentary canal to breathe through the plaster).

Funeral (On the Art of Dying) Trailer (2016)

23 October 2016

"This filme is the 'last' episode of my auto-cine-biographic work Babel, which covers more that thirty years of mu life and it started in 1983 with 'Letter to My Friends who stayed in Belgium'.

Histoire d'un déménagement Trailer (1967)

18 August 1967

Julien and Anty, two young slackers, take seven days to move three trinkets a short distance, exemplifying the strategy of least effort.

When the Night Goes Tango Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

Sarajevo, 1993. Haska is 28 years old. She loves Elvir, but even more so their 8-year-old son Denis, who has taken center stage in her life since the war began.

La dernière (s)cène ou l’évangile selon Saint-Boris Trailer (1995)

15 June 1995

A dialogue based on the Gospel according to St John. The apostles are played by friends (the disciples) of Boris Lehman, most of themselves moviemakers, filmed in front of the last house still standing opposite the new buildings of the European Union.

Ghosts from the Past (How History Got into Me) Trailer (2021)

22 October 2021

How to talk about History, the big one and the small one, ours and that of each of us? Watching television, browsing the Internet, rummaging through the stock of world archives?

Choses qui me rattachent aux êtres Trailer (2010)

25 August 2010

The filmmaker does an inventory of the objects he has received from his friends or relatives. Through that variety of things that binds him and his beloved ones together, he tries to take interest in the notion of identity in an indirect, metonymic and multiple way: the part represents the whole, the object represents the individual to whom it now belongs but, at the same time, its original owner.

The Dead Tree Trailer (1987)

01 January 1987

The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South America.

Trying to Describe Oneself Trailer (2005)

04 November 2005

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others.

Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

The film narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of dramatist Antonin Artaud and visit the Tarahumara people of Mexico.

14Reels Trailer (2016)

12 March 2016

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city.

Lapses, Regrets and Qualms Trailer (2016)

15 October 2016

A day in the life of director Boris Lehman: he wanders from cafe to bookshop, cinema to museum, writer to musician, and into the storeroom of the film archive.

Une belle croisière Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

A boat ride to celebrate a birthday with friends becomes the pretext for a film shoot. A family film that quickly turns into a fable and a biblical tale.

Plaisir du paradis Trailer (2011)

01 January 2011

Earthen Man Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

From the construction of a sculpture "life size" in the earth, the director Boris Lehman imagines a story that staged a sculptor (Paulus Brun) struggling with an impossible order.

Cinématon Trailer (1978)

20 December 1978

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.

Vie Trailer (2011)

14 April 2011

The Image, The World Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

In a burlesque mode, the director tries to deflate the world (realized here by a globe), to level it, to put its three dimensions in two.

Man Carrying Trailer (2003)

30 May 2003

The man carrying his body, his reels of film, his bag and his old Nikon, is Boris Lehman, he's also Sisyphus, Jesus Christ, and Ixion as told by Alfred Jarry in La Chandelle Verte.

Album 1 Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

In July and August Lehman filmed 150 individuals in and around Brussels, and he himself was filmed by the same persons.

La Marelle et les Épouvantails Trailer (2011)

22 September 2011

This is the story of a double spell. Are scarecrows not the remains of the living dead whose souls are trying to escape to ascend to heaven? The game of hopscotch goes From earth to heaven, Between luck and the well, You come back and it's over.

Brussels-Transit Trailer (1982)

18 February 1982

Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced.

Hérésie pour Magritte IV Trailer (1979)

04 April 1979

Ulrich Gregor is filmed in his office at the Berlin Film Festival surrounded by the festival's poster (The Great Family of René Magritte).

Autour de Jeanne Dielman Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making.

365 Day Project Trailer (2007)

31 December 2007

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form.

The Dreamed Films Trailer (2010)

18 March 2010

Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwels' meditation on dream, travel and film.

Looking for My Birthplace Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

Film director Boris Lehman returns to Lausanne, where he was born on 3 March 1944, at the end of the war.

Jean-Gina B. Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

This film is based on the true story of Jean Bella, who served as an officer in the Belgian Marine while being convinced, from an early age, that he was in fact a woman.

Ocana, der Engel der in der Qual singt Trailer (1979)

04 April 1979

Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall.

Le journal de Joseph M. Trailer (2000)

15 February 2000

Paradox Trailer (2013)

01 January 2013

The film illustrates the paradox that 64=65.

My Seven Places Trailer (2014)

08 January 2014

Seven apartments, seven times of life: one film. A classic diary film, Boris Lehman intimately chronicles his own existence and that of objects and places that became an essential part of his life.

Red Mudh Trailer (2005)

27 March 2005

The son (Julien) returns to his father (Arié), who offers him rabbit for dinner, but the son only wants honey.

Un peintre sous surveillance Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

L'Odyssée Trailer (2016)

02 January 2016

To escape the dreary daily routine of city life, where she no longer finds meaning in her life, a filmmaker sets out in search of her own film, using the filming of The Odyssey as a pretext.

Mai 68 en 2018 Trailer (2018)

01 January 2018

A short ciné-tract made by Boris Lehman in homage to the films of May '68.

Alterations and Repairs Trailer (2007)

12 January 2007

Portrait of Richard Kenigsman by Boris Lehman.

Une Histoire de Cheveux (Sibérie) Trailer (2021)

11 October 2021

Histoire de mes cheveux ended with a shot where I found myself locked in a concentration camp. I had said shortly before that I was glad I finally arrived home.

Story of My Hair Trailer (2011)

01 January 2011

The story of my hair can be told in two lines. My hair was long and black. It has turned white. It hasn't been cut since 1982, almost thirty years ago.

Ne pas stagner Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

This film is not a document about madness, any more than a film-truth investigation. It is a reflection of the experience of the Club Antonin Artaud's theater group (social and cultural rehabilitation center for the mentally ill, located in the Begijnhof district of Brussels and in which Boris Lehman was a leader for many years).

Cinématon n°468 : Boris Lehman Trailer (1985)

11 July 1985

Conversation avec Boris Lehman Trailer (2012)

07 January 2012

The Last Supper Trailer (2003)

05 September 2003

The dialogue is based on the Gospel according to St John. The apostles are played by friends (the disciples) of Boris Lehman, most of them movie-makers, filmed in front of the last house still standing opposite the new buildings of the European Union.

Before the Beginning Trailer (2015)

24 October 2015

"Two independent filmmakers, who willingly practise self-fiction, are filming each other in order to communicate better.