Boris Lehman, filmmaker
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Boris Lehman, filmmaker (French: Contre le temps et l'effacement, Boris Lehman...) is a 1997 documentary film
by Quebec film director and producer Denys Desjardins
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acts in, directs, produces, and distributes his films, single-handedly incarnating the essence of a creator who manages to survive on the fringes of his industry. From Brussels to Paris, friends, filmmakers, critics, and crew offer their understanding of a man for whom life is a reason to film, and film, a reason to live.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
by Quebec film director and producer Denys Desjardins
Denys Desjardins
Denys Desjardins , is a film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and teacher for more than fifteen years. After completing studies in literature, film and communications, he directed several acclaimed films.-Career:...
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Plot
Coined one of the most intimate and obstinate filmmakers in Belgium, Boris LehmanBoris Lehman
Boris Lehman, , is a Belgian author-filmmaker of experimental cinema. Lehman initially studied piano, but in the early 1960s became interested in photography and cinema...
acts in, directs, produces, and distributes his films, single-handedly incarnating the essence of a creator who manages to survive on the fringes of his industry. From Brussels to Paris, friends, filmmakers, critics, and crew offer their understanding of a man for whom life is a reason to film, and film, a reason to live.
Award
- Honorable mention for Best Short documentary by the Quebec Films Critics Association, 1997.