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Luc de Heusch
Brussels, Belgium
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…
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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.
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2023
Nkumi, everyday life
Movie Director
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2023
Burial among the Tetela
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2023
Lotoko
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2004
Ostende 1930
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1995
A Republic Gone Mad: Rwanda 1894-1994
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1990
I’m Crazy, I’m Foolish, I’m Nasty
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1984
In the Footsteps of the Pale Fox
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1984
De droomproducenten
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1972
Dotremont-les-logogrammes
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1970
Alechinsky d'après nature
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1968
Libre examen 1968
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1967
Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
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1961
Les amis du plaisir
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1960
Magritte or the Object Lesson
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1958
Gestes du repas
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1957
Michel de Ghelderode
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1951
Perséphone
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Fête chez les Hambas
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