Boris Lehman

  • Boris Lehman – Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense (1978)

    Boris Lehman1971-1980BelgiumDocumentaryExperimental

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    A living chronicle of the residents of Béguinage neighbourhood – so named because it is situated on the site of former Béguinage. Designed as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film comprises around thirty chapters, each imbricated with the other, like so many pieces of a puzzle, or resembling a termite mound with many intersecting galleries. It takes place within the space and interstices of a day, starting at dawn and ending at night. (Boris Lehman)Read More »

  • Samy Szlingerbaum – Bruxelles-transit (1982)

    1981-1990BelgiumDocumentaryDramaSamy Szlingerbaum

    Bruxelles-transit (1982)
    Fictional re-enactments about the early years in Belgium of the director’s parents, Jewish immigrants from Poland, and scenes taken in modern Brussels in this elliptical experimental feature.
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    “This is the threnody of rootlessness and marginality, set in the neighbourhood of the Brussels Midi Station. ‘their area, their burrow, their kingdom – today I still have the impression that they are camping there’ (S. Szlingerbaum). The 80 minutes of the film avidly probe this past of his mother’s memories via the voice-over, songs, whispered confidences and a handful of fictional scenes also in Yiddish, ‘a language which is dying out as its last speakers are lost in the city,’ in the words of the director.” – René Michelems.Read More »

  • Boris Lehman – Leçon de vie AKA Life Lesson (1995)

    1991-2000ArthouseBelgiumBoris LehmanDocumentary

    An essay film about the urge to find meaning and imaginative truths in life.Read More »

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