Boris Lehman Movies

Boris Lehman’s “Cinématon” n°2292 portrait by Gérard Courant on August 29, 2010 in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France.

How to talk about History, the big one and the small one, ours and that of each of us? Watching television, browsing the Internet, rummaging through...

Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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 veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South...

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme...

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:...

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...

To escape the dreary daily routine of city life, where she no longer finds meaning in her life, a filmmaker sets out in search of her own film, using...

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...

This is the story of a double spell. Are scarecrows not the remains of the living dead whose souls are trying to escape to ascend to heaven? The game...

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...

A collage film, a dialogue between mother and the unborn child, the film can be seen as a personal self-analysis by René Paquot, who dreamily...

"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,...

With a keen awareness of his mentally ill condition, René Paquot denounces all powers, and especially the practices of psychiatric hospitals,...

The film illustrates the paradox that 64=65.

The filmmaker does an inventory of the objects he has received from his friends or relatives. Through that variety of things that binds him and his...

A family of Polish-Jewish refugees arrives in Brussels in 1947 to navigate the challenges of postwar survival. Guided by a maternal voice-over, the...

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