Boris Lehman

Ghosts from the Past (How History Got into Me) (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? Or more simply, going back to our own images that built us? ...

Une Histoire de Cheveux (Sibérie) (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. A song of hope, however, echoed with a fantasized happy ending (Hollywood kiss) and a song that ...

Mai 68 en 2018 (2018)

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

Funeral (On the Art of Dying) (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'. It can be considered my living will. ...

Lapses, Regrets and Qualms (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... He celebrates his birthday in an alleyway, with a friend, and finishes his journey with an esc ...

14Reels (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. ...

Before the Beginning (2015)

"Two independent filmmakers, who willingly practise self-fiction, are filming each other in order to communicate better. In spite of their differences in language and style, the film is mainly an attempt to imitate, or even to become, the other, which is d ...

L'art de de s'egarer ou l'image du bonheur (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. When we started shooting, the director's camera was stolen. The film in ...

My Seven Places (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. A truly cinematic experience that gives us a highly Europe ...

My Conversations on Film (2013)

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and ...

Paradox (2013)

The film illustrates the paradox that 64=65. ...

L'Artifice et le factice (2012)

"L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988 of my filmed Notebooks. ...

La Marelle et les Épouvantails (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. Little, li ...

Story of My Hair (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. Story of my Hair is a journey, both in space and in time. Anyone looking for truths, whether geographica ...

Choses qui me rattachent aux êtres (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 mul ...

Une belle croisière (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. It is the story of Noah's Ark, braving the flood and saving a few remnants of humanity, which is stran ...

Un peintre sous surveillance (2008)

Alterations and Repairs (2007)

Portrait of Richard Kenigsman by Boris Lehman. ...

Trying to Describe Oneself (2005)

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and journe ...

Red Mudh (2005)

The son (Julien) returns to his father (Arié), who offers him rabbit for dinner, but the son only wants honey. The father goes to get some from the hive but gets stuck inside. Fairy tale or pastiche, it all ends badly. With the murder of the father. Then ...

The Last Supper (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. Jud ...

Man Carrying (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. An essay on heaviness and lightness. The carrying man would like to fly, v ...

A for Adrienne (2002)

Adrienne is not my mother. She is not Jewish. I met her five years ago, at Edouard's, where I'd gone to ask my friend to lend me a dinner jacket for the premiere of my film "Life Lessons". She came to see the film and we began to meet often (Boris Lehman). ...

Story of My Life Told by My Photographs (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. ...

When the Night Goes Tango (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. Haska tries to give her daily life a semblance of normality. Elvir's death at the front will sh ...

The Image, The World (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. To do this, he fights against the material and the ball, embraces it, lies down on it, twists and tramples it. Illusor ...

La dernière (s)cène ou l’évangile selon Saint-Boris (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. Juda ...

Life Lesson (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. Some fifty persons illustrate the planet's convulsions and the world's va ...

Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium (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. This is a film about intimacy and friend ...

Looking for My Birthplace (1990)

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

Earthen Man (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. The man of land is "golemise", takes life in the countryside, and ends up dy ...

Silent as a Fish (1987)

From pond to plate, we are shown the journey and destiny of one carp among many. This particular carp will be eaten stuffed during a family meal. Carp stuffed (in the Polish fashion), also called in yiddish (Gefilte Fish) is a traditional dish eaten by A ...

Masque (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). ...

Portrait of the painter at his workshop (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»). ...

Couple, regards, positions (1983)

A two-way mirror. Water and fire. Water extinguishes fire, and fire boils away water. There are many difficulties preventing them from understanding one another. ...

Symphonie (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. He tells a ...

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

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

Villofolie (1975)

Shot with direct sound, Villofolie presents six people giving a monologue in a destroyed and dehumanized city: Brussels. The film dissects itself to reflect on mental illness and the inability to communicate. The group of people portrayed share feelings of ...

Mon délire, le Saint Michel (1975)

With an acute awareness of his condition as a mental patient, René Pacquot denounces all powers, and especially the practices of psychiatric hospitals, which he compares with those used in slaughterhouses: submissions by drugs, straitjackets and extermina ...

Le ventre, un supermonde (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. revolt. ...

The bus (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. It is life as it is, in its troubling banali ...

Ne pas stagner (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 d ...

Maurice D... (1972)

With Maurice D, an enigmatic silent film that could be situated somewhere between Luis Buñuel's Un Chien andalou and Alfred Hitchcock's La Loi du silence, another extremely rare auteur, Maurice Diament, is brought to light. The anxiety-inducing effect of ...

Marins d'eau douce (1966)

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

Une Histoire de Cheveux (Sibérie) (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. A song of hope, however, echoed with a fantasized happy ending (Hollywood kiss) and a song that ...

Boris Lehman à Toulouse (2020)

Lapses, Regrets and Qualms (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... He celebrates his birthday in an alleyway, with a friend, and finishes his journey with an esc ...

EXPRMNTL (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. ...

L'Odyssée (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. ...

My Seven Places (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. A truly cinematic experience that gives us a highly Europe ...

My Conversations on Film (2013)

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and ...

Paradox (2013)

The film illustrates the paradox that 64=65. ...

Jardins clandestins (2012)

Conversation avec Boris Lehman (2012)

La Marelle et les Épouvantails (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. Little, li ...

Vie (2011)

War is Looming (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 disappearan ...

Story of My Hair (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. Story of my Hair is a journey, both in space and in time. Anyone looking for truths, whether geographica ...

The Dreamed Films (2010)

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

Déconstruction (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 sort ...

365 Day Project (2007)

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas' 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were ...

Alterations and Repairs (2007)

Portrait of Richard Kenigsman by Boris Lehman. ...

Trying to Describe Oneself (2005)

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and journe ...

Red Mudh (2005)

The son (Julien) returns to his father (Arié), who offers him rabbit for dinner, but the son only wants honey. The father goes to get some from the hive but gets stuck inside. Fairy tale or pastiche, it all ends badly. With the murder of the father. Then ...

The Last Supper (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. Jud ...

Man Carrying (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. An essay on heaviness and lightness. The carrying man would like to fly, v ...

Story of My Life Told by My Photographs (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. ...

Le journal de Joseph M. (2000)

The Image, The World (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. To do this, he fights against the material and the ball, embraces it, lies down on it, twists and tramples it. Illusor ...

Peccato (1997)

A mystic road movie and tells the story of il signore Peccato, an architect in the Middle Ages, and his long journey through the world of sin. ...

Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium (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. This is a film about intimacy and friend ...

Earthen Man (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. The man of land is "golemise", takes life in the countryside, and ends up dy ...

The Dead Tree (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. ...

Masque (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). ...

Cinématon n°468 : Boris Lehman (1985)

Portrait of the painter at his workshop (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»). ...

Jean-Gina B. (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. Director Jean-Pol Ferbus follows Jean Bella and makes him talk about his life, psychol ...

Couple, regards, positions (1983)

A two-way mirror. Water and fire. Water extinguishes fire, and fire boils away water. There are many difficulties preventing them from understanding one another. ...

Brussels-Transit (1982)

Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family's search for refuge after World War II was in ...

Hérésie pour Magritte IV (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). ...

Cinématon IV (1978)

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

Cinématon (1978)

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 ...

Autour de Jeanne Dielman (1975)

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