Boris Lehman

Boris Lehman (born 3 March 1944, Lausanne), is a Belgian author-filmmaker of experimental cinema. thumb

Lehman initially studied piano, but in the early 1960s became interested in photography and cinema. In 1966, after graduating in Film Studies from the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du spectacle, Brussels, he became a film enthusiast and critic, contributing reviews to weekly publications and magazines. He began making films between 1965 and 1983 when working for Club Antonin Artaud, a readjustment day centre for the mentally ill, using cinema as a therapeutic tool with patients. He later founded the film-based organisations Cinélibre, Cinédit, and AJC, the young filmmakers' workshop.

He has assisted Henri Storck with the films Secret Forest of Africa and Fêtes de Belgique, and Chantal Akerman with Jeanne Dielman. He has also collaborated with filmmakers Patrick Van Antwerpen, Jean-Marie Buchet and Gérard Courant. As an actor, Lehman has played roles in Brussels-transit (dir. Samy Szlingerbaum 1980), Canal K (dir. Maurice Rabinowicz 1970), and Les Filles en Orange (dir. Yaël André 2003).

Initially working with amateurs, he has produced 400 films in Super 8, 16 mm or video, as either shorts, features, documentaries, journals or autobiographies, and has shot 300,000 photographs. He wrote the libretto of Fanny Tran's opera ″ La véritable histoire de la Dame Blanche"(2020). Lehman's cinematic work has little public recognition but has been shown at numerous festivals and cine clubs.

Films La Clé du champ, 1963 Histoire d'un déménagement, 1967 Catalogue, 1968 Le Centre et la Classe, 1970 Ne pas Stagner, 1973 Knokke Out, 1974 Album 1, 1974 Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense, 1978 Symphonie, 1979 Couple, Regards, Positions, 1983 Portrait du peintre dans son atelier, 1985 Muet comme une carpe, 1987 Masque, 1987 L'Homme de Terre, 1989 Cinématon (juif) de Gérard Courant, 1989 A la recherche du lieu de ma naissance, 1990 La Chute des Heures, 1990 Babel / Lettre à mes amis restés en Belgique, 1991 Tentatives de se décrire, 1989-2005 Je suis fier d'être Belge, 1993 Leçon de vie, 1994 Homme portant son film le plus lourd, 1994 La Division de mon temps, 1994 Un jour comme les autres, 1994 Check-Up (Etat de Santé), 1994 Un Bruit qui rend sourd, 1995 La Dernière s(cène), 1995 Mes Entretiens filmés, 1996 Mon voyage en Allemagne, 1997 Mon voyage à Moscou, 1997 L‘image et le monde, 1998 A comme Adrienne, 2000 Histoire de ma vie racontée par mes photographies, 2001 Mes 7 lieux, 2001 Homme portant, 2003