Xavier Baert
Directing
Xavier Baert has been making movies since 1999, mostly on silver-halide film. He is also a programmer at the Cinémathèque de la Danse and a member of the artist-run film laboratory Etna. His movies are caracterized by the image of a dreamed body, dancing, and lustful, and by the nakedness. His practice evolves from film to film, and combines different formal treatments in a never-ending quest of the sublime. Being a filmmaker with an eclectic knowledge, he claims the influence of «traditional filmmakers (Wong Kar Wai, Ferrara, De Palma) as much as experimental ones such as Soukaz, Lemaître, Almuro, whose common point would be the radicality of authorship. Xavier Baert and his danser Cyril Accorsi were recently greeted as residents at the Centre National de la Danse in order to extend their artistic collaboration.
Known for
Behind the camera10
- 2025Un film perdu du Lionel Soukaz Director
- 2023Contrechants, atlas Director
- 2013Présence Director
- 2007Extase Director
- 2004Empreinte Director
- 2002Nu lacté Cinematography, Director
- 2002Fantôme Director
- 2001Révélation Director
- 2001Danseurs à la Gay Pride 2001 Director
- 1999Bal de la Tournelle Director