Boris Lehman

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Boris Lehman, born in 1944, is a Belgian author-filmmaker of experimental cinema.

Boris Lehman

After studies of piano, it is devoted from the very start of the years 1960 with photography and the cinema. Graduate of the national Institute higher of the performing arts of Brussels, film enthusiast and critical, it collaborates in many reviews of cinema. He starts a cinematographic work out of the commercial standards, initially with the mental patients of a center of readjustment, the Club Antonin Artaud where he works like organizer, using the cinema like therapeutic tool, then with amateurs and nonprofessional. He will result work river from it cash, to date, more than 300 films (short and long, documentary and fictions, tests and experiments, newspapers, autobiographies...), and some 300 000 photographs. Not very known general public because of the absence of his work in the conventional distribution systems, its films is however the object of a diffusion regular in the festivals, and of retrospectives organized in the cineclubs. Boris Lehman was an actor (principal male role) in Brussels-transit (1980) of Samy Szlingerbaum. He also played in Canal K of Maurice Rabinowicz (1970) and the Orange Girls of Yaël André (2003). He collaborated for various reasons with Henri Storck (Secret Forest of Africa, Fêtes of Belgium), Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman), Patrick Van Antwerpen, Jean-Marie Buchet, etc. Boris Lehman founded associations of cinema (Cinélibre, Cinédit, the Workshop of the Young Author-filmmaker).