Jean-Marie Buchet

une fameuse journee (2005)

absurdist short about a wonderful day. ...

Le Filet Américain (1981)

The documentary's legacy lies in its unapologetic fusion of agitprop and satire, a signature style of De Hert's Fugitive Cinema collective. By juxtaposing Mandel's economic theories with absurd military parades, the film exposes the contradictions of a soc ...

Ad vitam aeternam (1978)

A man remains dazed and confused after his wife's death. Strange things start happening in his house. The next day the undertaker comes to collect the body. ...

Mireille and the Others (1978)

Caught between the impetuousness of youth and the responsibilities of adulthood, five angsty teens face an uncertain future. ...

Pierre (1977)

Pierre lives with his mother in an antiquated house in a run-down working-class area. Every morning, Pierre takes the tram to his job at the town hall, where he listens to his colleagues' jokes over the lunch break. His only hope of banishing his boredom a ...

Gombrowicz: Incidents, Adventures (1977)

An actor pretends to be a writer. He sits in his office, reflects and puts words to paper, which are then performed by Jan Decorte. The text influences the situations shown and vice versa [Avila]. ...

High Street (1976)

David, an American Jewish painter in Brussels for an exhibit, becomes obsessed with Mimi, a mentally ill Belgium woman. As he uncovers the World War II roots of her disturbance, however, he increasingly manifests her symptoms. ...

Potemkine 3 (1974)

Recovering all of the intertitles of the Battleship Potemkin, Jean-Marie Buchet substitutes for the images of the film various views that he himself shot and which are unrelated to the initial work, thus joining the technique of diversion widely recommende ...

In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx (1974)

The last film prohibited by Francisco Franco. Jean-Marie Buchet plays the role of a collector of used tampons in this avant-garde comedy-adventure film. ...

Suzanne's Fugue (1974)

Suzanne has had enough of her boyfriend Albert. The drama unfolds in fifteen tableaux, in which she goes over to Albert's friend Emile. Still, these romantic worries go hand in hand with insatiable boredom. ...

Le sexe enragé (1970)

A bourgeoisie client is transformed into a mouse and cannibalized by a prostitute in flagrante delicto with the camera changing focus in time to her breathing. ...

Cold Head (1970)

Shots of a car speeding down the road are intercut with kinky sex flashes (a woman with a whip rides a guy, for instance). Then the car crashes into a tree, the male driver (Christian Chaix) is decapitated and the bloody, injured female (Marie-Paule Maille ...

Bunch of Assholes! (1970)

An actor on screen insults the audience. How will spectators react? ...

Bruno: Sunday's Child (1969)

The weekend of August 15th gives the opportunity to Michel Fauvet, a recently divorced father, to spend two full days with Bruno, his thirteen-year-old son, that he can normally see only one Sunday a month. Feeling guilty, he tries to compensate for the tr ...

La ballade des amants maudits (1967)

The terrible revenge of a woman who sees the man she desires with another woman... ...

Je t'aime (1961)

Short film with hitchhikers and jazz music by Belgium filmmaker Jean-Marie Buchet. ...

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 ...

Vivement ce soir (1985)

The film records a day in a supermarket in the Brussels region. The story of this day's little events, both comic and touching, provides the general framework of the film. The situations which are conveyed through an accumulation of quick, light touches, h ...

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 ...

Grève et pets (1975)

In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx (1974)

The last film prohibited by Francisco Franco. Jean-Marie Buchet plays the role of a collector of used tampons in this avant-garde comedy-adventure film. ...