Boris Lehman Movies

  • 2011
    War is Looming

    War is Looming

    War is Looming

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    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...

    War is Looming
  • 2003
    Man Carrying

    Man Carrying

    Man Carrying

    02003HD

    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...

    Man Carrying
  • 1973
    The bus

    The bus

    The bus

    01973HD

    "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,...

    The bus
  • 1974
    Album 1

    Album 1

    Album 1

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

    Album 1
  • 1967
    Histoire d'un déménagement

    Histoire d'un déménagement

    Histoire d'un déménagement

    01967HD

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

    Histoire d'un déménagement
  • 2015
    L'art de de s'egarer ou l'image du bonheur

    L'art de de s'egarer ou l'image du bonheur

    L'art de de s'egarer ou l'image du bonheur

    102015HD

    The last day of the life of German Jewish writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). The director re-routes Walter Benjamin between...

    L'art de de s'egarer ou l'image du bonheur
  • 2003
    The Last Supper

    The Last Supper

    The Last Supper

    02003HD

    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...

    The Last Supper
  • 2014
    My Seven Places

    My Seven Places

    My Seven Places

    02014HD

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

    My Seven Places
  • 2016
    Funeral (On the Art of Dying)

    Funeral (On the Art of Dying)

    Funeral (On the Art of Dying)

    02016HD

    "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...

    Funeral (On the Art of Dying)
  • 2002
    A for Adrienne

    A for Adrienne

    A for Adrienne

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    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...

    A for Adrienne
  • 1966
    Marins d'eau douce

    Marins d'eau douce

    Marins d'eau douce

    01966HD

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

    Marins d'eau douce
  • 2013
    Paradox

    Paradox

    Paradox

    02013HD

    The film illustrates the paradox that 64=65.

    Paradox
  • 1973
    Ne pas stagner

    Ne pas stagner

    Ne pas stagner

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    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...

    Ne pas stagner
  • 2011
    Story of My Hair

    Story of My Hair

    Story of My Hair

    02011HD

    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...

    Story of My Hair
  • 2018
    Mai 68 en 2018

    Mai 68 en 2018

    Mai 68 en 2018

    02018HD

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

    Mai 68 en 2018
  • 1998
    The Image, The World

    The Image, The World

    The Image, The World

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    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,...

    The Image, The World
  • 1987
    Masque

    Masque

    Masque

    01987HD

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

    Masque
  • 1985
    Portrait of the painter at his workshop

    Portrait of the painter at his workshop

    Portrait of the painter at his workshop

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    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:...

    Portrait of the painter at his workshop
  • 1975
    Villofolie

    Villofolie

    Villofolie

    01975HD

    Shot with direct sound, Villofolie presents six people giving a monologue in a destroyed and dehumanized city: Brussels. The film dissects itself to...

    Villofolie
  • 2015
    Before the Beginning

    Before the Beginning

    Before the Beginning

    02015HD

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

    Before the Beginning