Luc de Heusch
Directing
- Born
- May 7, 1927 · Brussels, Belgium
- Died
- August 7, 2012 (age 85)
Luc de Heusch (7 May 1927 – 7 August 2012) was a Belgian filmmaker, writer, and anthropologist, professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles . His 1967 film Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
Luc de Heusch began his career in film in 1947 as assistant to Henri Storck . From 1949 to 1951 he lived in an artists' commune, the Ateliers du Marais. In 1951, under the pseudonym Luc Zangrie , he directed Perséphone , the only film produced by the CoBrA artistic movement.
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In 1953 and 1954 he carried out anthropological fieldwork in the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi . Like Henri Storck and Charles Dekeukeleire , he also made documentary films about the Congo.
From 1955 to 1992 he was professor of social and cultural anthropology at the Free University of Brussels , later Université libre de Bruxelles.
Known for
Magritte or the Object Lesson
January 1, 1960
Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
January 1, 1967
Michel de Ghelderode
December 10, 1957
Libre examen 1968
January 1, 1968
In the Footsteps of the Pale Fox
June 1, 1984
Gestes du repas
March 27, 1958
Perséphone
July 6, 1951
Les amis du plaisir
January 1, 1961
Dotremont-les-logogrammes
December 10, 1972
Behind the camera17
- 2023Nkumi, everyday life Director
- 2023Lotoko Director
- 2023Burial among the Tetela Director
- 2004Ostende 1930 Director, Editor
- 1995A Republic Gone Mad: Rwanda 1894-1994 Director
- 1990I’m Crazy, I’m Foolish, I’m Nasty Director
- 1984In the Footsteps of the Pale Fox Director
- 1972Dotremont-les-logogrammes Director
- 1970Alechinsky d'après nature Director
- 1968Libre examen 1968