Wim Mertens

Key to Heaven (2025)

From the filmmaker's perspective, we follow the process of a possible feature film about a photographer (Lea) tasked with capturing the energy transition in Amsterdam's harbor area. This brings up a flood of memories and associations. What do you do with w ...

O Que Trago do Chumbo - Os 50 Anos do Golpe Militar (2014)

Imagined Landscape (2012)

A dynamic visual journey through the films of José Antonio Sistiaga, for his paintings, of fruitful and relevant experience, for his erotic work, and their personal experiences and more endearing. ...

Pretty Bird (2008)

A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American d ...

Running on Empty (2006)

The dull daily routine of an insurance agent, who listlessly drives down the highway every day and conducts customer meetings while longing for his family, becomes a metaphor for a life that has come to a standstill and is threatened with being crushed by ...

Lisa (1996)

Lisa's life changes dramatically when she discovers she is seropositive. ...

Fiesta (1995)

A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War. ...

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1995)

A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in Hong Kong. ...

Thinking of You (1993)

Belgium, 1980. On the banks of the Meuse river, against the background of a steel-producing city, factories close down one after another and lay off workers. One of those made redundant is Fabrice, who, at thirty-five, is proud of his trade, and now feels ...

Servaisgraphia (1992)

Short film on Raoul Servais' Servaisgrafie process/invention. ...

Rust (1990)

After 15 years Pétur returns to Baddi's auto garage that is still located at the end of the world. Baddi lives there with his two children and worker. 15 years before terrible events occurred at the garage that forced Pétur to leave. ...

The Belly of an Architect (1987)

Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley ...

Wim Mertens - What you see is what you hear (2005)