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- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- May 7, 1927
- Place of Birth
- Brussels, Belgium
- Died
- August 7, 2012
Luc de Heusch
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. 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.
Filmography
Nkumi, everyday life
movieNkumi, everyday life
2023 · Director
Burial among the Tetela
movieBurial among the Tetela
2023 · Director
Lotoko
movieLotoko
2023 · Director
Ostende 1930
movieOstende 1930
2004 · Director, Editor
A Republic Gone Mad: Rwanda 1894-1994
movieA Republic Gone Mad: Rwanda 1894-1994
1995 · Director
I’m Crazy, I’m Foolish, I’m Nasty
movieI’m Crazy, I’m Foolish, I’m Nasty
1990 · Director
movieIn the Footsteps of the Pale Fox
1984 · Director
movieDe droomproducenten
1984 · Self
movieDotremont-les-logogrammes
1972 · Director
Alechinsky d'après nature
movieAlechinsky d'après nature
1970 · Director
movieLibre examen 1968
1968 · Director
movieThursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
1967 · Director, Dialogue
movieLes amis du plaisir
1961 · Director
movieMagritte or the Object Lesson
1960 · Director, Writer
movieGestes du repas
1958 · Director, Screenplay
movieMichel de Ghelderode
1957 · Director
moviePerséphone
1951 · Director
Fête chez les Hambas
movieFête chez les Hambas
— · Director, Writer