Jean-Marie Buchet
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Jean-Marie Buchet is a Belgian author
and filmmaker.
(ISAD, Institut Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs, an art school created by Henry Van de Velde
) from which he holds an unforgettable memory (no budget, no equipment). Buchet entered the Section of experimental cinema that La Cambre created in 1957. There, He mainly studied sound editing and made 3 short films: "Discours" (Speech), "Comment se pendre" (How to hang himself), "that it will wire for sound" in 1974, and "Masques" in 1959, which he made in collaboration with Marc Lobet on a music of Fernand Schirren.
. In 1974, he directed Suzanne's Fugue, his first full-length film under conditions now unimaginable (200.000FB or US$5,000 budget). Five years later, with Mireille and the Others, a full-length film turned during six weeks, in studio, produced by Godfroid Courtmans. This was a film of humor, on the razor's edge, neighbors absurdity, a little with the manner of Czech films of the Sixties. Selected in San Remo and Moscow, the film does not obtain discounted public success. Buchet launched Pauvres mais Beaux (after the film "Poveri ma belli" from Dino Risi), a production house and turns over to the short film: a documentary, Les meilleurs in 1982 and Dupont Durand in 1989. During his later years, he wrote and directed some shorts. he now works on "Passions froides" a project of full-length film which he does not despair to carry out, in spite of resistance from his producer the last time.
During his career, he directed short fictions, experimental film
s and documentaries. He is also the author of two full-length
films: "La fugue de Suzanne" (Suzanne's Fugue, 1974) and "Mireille dans la vie des autres" (Mireille and the Others, 1979). In 1968, he collaborated with Robbe De Hert
in the realization of committed films and, took part the same year in the creation of "Cinélibre". In addition to work as screenwriter, script-doctor, manager and director of production, Jean-Marie Buchet also directed until 2002 a workshop of writing of scenario at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
(ULB-ELICIT). He has been writing movie criticism in the "Grand Angle" review since 1996 and works in the service of film restoration at the royal Film Archive of Belgium since 1999.
Author
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and filmmaker.
Early life & education
At the age of twelve, Buchet said to a school-fellow, after having failed at an examination: "Later I will make cinema!" (in À chacun son cinéma, Édition Luc Pire/Cinergie, Brussels, 1995, p. 32). At nineteen, he entered the first class of cinema of La CambreLa Cambre
L'École de la Cambre, more known as La Cambre, is a renowned architecture and visual arts school founded by Henry van de Velde in Brussels in 1926....
(ISAD, Institut Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs, an art school created by Henry Van de Velde
Henry van de Velde
Henry Clemens Van de Velde was a Belgian Flemish painter, architect and interior designer. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar he could be considered one of the main founders and representatives of Art Nouveau in Belgium...
) from which he holds an unforgettable memory (no budget, no equipment). Buchet entered the Section of experimental cinema that La Cambre created in 1957. There, He mainly studied sound editing and made 3 short films: "Discours" (Speech), "Comment se pendre" (How to hang himself), "that it will wire for sound" in 1974, and "Masques" in 1959, which he made in collaboration with Marc Lobet on a music of Fernand Schirren.
Career
After having worked at Meuter-Titra laboratories, he worked with the cameraman Willy Kurant. In 1963, he made the short film, "La journée de Monsieur Chose" (The day of Mr Chose [Thing]) and the following year, "Que peut-on bien faire chez soi le dimanche après-midi quand on n'a pas la télévision?" (What can we do on a Sunday afternoon, when we don't have a TV?). Five years later, he made "Hommage à Don" Helder CamaraHélder Câmara
Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife.He was known as the 'Bishop of Corum' and took a clear position with the urban poor....
. In 1974, he directed Suzanne's Fugue, his first full-length film under conditions now unimaginable (200.000FB or US$5,000 budget). Five years later, with Mireille and the Others, a full-length film turned during six weeks, in studio, produced by Godfroid Courtmans. This was a film of humor, on the razor's edge, neighbors absurdity, a little with the manner of Czech films of the Sixties. Selected in San Remo and Moscow, the film does not obtain discounted public success. Buchet launched Pauvres mais Beaux (after the film "Poveri ma belli" from Dino Risi), a production house and turns over to the short film: a documentary, Les meilleurs in 1982 and Dupont Durand in 1989. During his later years, he wrote and directed some shorts. he now works on "Passions froides" a project of full-length film which he does not despair to carry out, in spite of resistance from his producer the last time.
During his career, he directed short fictions, experimental film
Experimental film
Experimental film or experimental cinema is a type of cinema. Experimental film is an artistic practice relieving both of visual arts and cinema. Its origins can be found in European avant-garde movements of the twenties. Experimental cinema has built its history through the texts of theoreticians...
s and documentaries. He is also the author of two full-length
films: "La fugue de Suzanne" (Suzanne's Fugue, 1974) and "Mireille dans la vie des autres" (Mireille and the Others, 1979). In 1968, he collaborated with Robbe De Hert
Robbe De Hert
Robbe De Hert is a Belgian film director.-Movies:*Camera Sutra *De Witte van Zichem *Le filet américain *Maria Danneels of Het leven dat we droomden...
in the realization of committed films and, took part the same year in the creation of "Cinélibre". In addition to work as screenwriter, script-doctor, manager and director of production, Jean-Marie Buchet also directed until 2002 a workshop of writing of scenario at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Université Libre de Bruxelles
The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.-Name:...
(ULB-ELICIT). He has been writing movie criticism in the "Grand Angle" review since 1996 and works in the service of film restoration at the royal Film Archive of Belgium since 1999.
Films
- 1957: Two things (Deux Choses): Conference (Conference) and How to be hang himself (Comment se pendre) (animation) 4'30"
- 1959: Masks (Masques, Co-director: Marc Lobet; Music Fernand Schirren) 9'
- 1961: I love you (Je t'aime) 10'
- 1963: The day of Mr Thing (La journée de Monsieur Chose) 12'
- 1964: What can we make at home on a Sunday afternoon when we do not have a television? (Que peut-on bien faire chez soi le dimanche après-midi quand on a pas la télévision?) 18'
- 1967: The dead center (Le point mort) 20'
- 1970: Homage To Don Helder Camara (Hommage à Don Helder Camara) 11'
- 1974: Potemkine 3 15'
- 1974: The Running away of Suzanne (La Fugue de Suzanne) 140'
- 1974: Christmas' Trilogy (Triptyque de Noël) 25'
- 1974: Film 10'
- 1978: Your rights (Vos droits, TV serial)
- 1979: Mireille in the life of the others (Mireille dans la vie des autres) 86'.
- His principal film, similar to Rohmer, Akerman or Pialat of "Master key your vat initially", but with an irony to typically tighten wallone, even boraine (its area of origin located at the west of the town of Mons). A second full-length film of fiction, bitter-sweet, on the daily life of late teenagers who prefer to live rather than to launch themselves in the active life with its obsession for competitiveness and profitability. In a word, to live rather than to survive in a world that breaks the dreams and format the desires.
- 1982: Bests (The) (Les Meilleurs) 28'
- 1983: Arrêt d'autobus 3'50" (video)
- 1983: Mille milliards
- 1988: Paris-Tubize
- 1989: Dupond Durand 8'
- 2001: Horrible 12'
- 2004: A famous day (Characteristic: There is a version in French Une fameuse journée and another in Dutch, one minute round longer, entitled Een Rare Dag.)
- 2004: Saddam Hussein is alive and well and He Lives in Brussels
- 2006: Tasse de thé (Cup of tea)
- 2009: Fantaisie sur la fin du monde (Fancy on the end of the world).
Actor
Jean-Marie Buchet acted in the comedies :- Le banc (The bench) of Patrick Van AntwerpenPatrick Van AntwerpenPatrick Van Antwerpen is a Belgian author-filmmaker born on 17 May 1944 in Ixelles and deceased in this commune on 3 December 1990.- Filmographie :* Jules, Julien, Julienne * La baraque * Le banc...
(1973) - L'autobus (The bus) of Patrick Van AntwerpenPatrick Van AntwerpenPatrick Van Antwerpen is a Belgian author-filmmaker born on 17 May 1944 in Ixelles and deceased in this commune on 3 December 1990.- Filmographie :* Jules, Julien, Julienne * La baraque * Le banc...
(1974) - Le Saigneur est avec nous (The Slaughterer is with us) of Roland LethemRoland LethemRoland Lethem is a Belgian filmmaker and writer.Influenced at his beginnings by Buñuel, Cocteau, the surrealists and by the Japanese cinema , stunned by the Festival of the film expérimental of Knokke in 1967 and by May 1968, Roland Lethem wants to push the people to look at the things of which...
(1974) - Grève et pets (Strike and farts) of Noël GodinNoël GodinNoël Godin is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious cream pie flinger or entarteur. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate with cream pies...
(1976); - Vivement ce soir (This evening ASAP) of Patrick Van AntwerpenPatrick Van AntwerpenPatrick Van Antwerpen is a Belgian author-filmmaker born on 17 May 1944 in Ixelles and deceased in this commune on 3 December 1990.- Filmographie :* Jules, Julien, Julienne * La baraque * Le banc...
(1985) - Chloé of Patrice Bauduinet (2006)
Writer
- A novel: Memory of Me - First Canto (Mémoire de Moi - Chant Premier)
- A book of poetry: The Homages' book (Le livre des hommages)