Movies: Eric De Kuyper

A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup....

Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity....

Ariane and Simon met down by the water. Simon has managed to prize Ariane away from her friends, a bunch of free and arrogant girls, and move her into his place, with her own room at the end of the hall and her own bathroom next to his. He has taken ...

When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded....

Film professor Michael falls in love with one of his students and is confronted with his pupil's father, with whom he had an affair over 15 years ago. This unexpected meeting abruptly overturns the lives of all the characters. When the tutor decides ...

A young Swiss drug addict has been imprisoned for robbery, and must wait and wait for his upcoming trial, all the while isolated and without hope of parole - the police are convinced he is a dealer and not just a user. He hears from his son that his ...

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Festival of Film and the Arts’ in 1949, organised in part by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium. To celeb...

An interview with film director Josef von Sternberg, produced for Belgium television....

An ode to musicals past. Handsome men spend their time in a beautiful manor....

Documentary exploring why Belgian television doesn't invest more money in Belgian cinema as is the case in e.g. the netherlands....

A homoerotic exploration of the Odyssey mixing black and white, color, and old film clips....

Eric De Kuyper’s first feature film in 25 years is made up of sequences that pay tribute to a range of Hollywood genres....

An old man comes across a fascinating archive, then meets a woman who introduces him to the life of a banker, patron and philanthropist. A moving essay that is part documentary, part film diary....

A celebration of the male form. A series of observations of men, filmed in beautiful black and white, with an almost total absence of the spoken word....

A series of short vignettes set in a Berlin Mietskaserne (rental barracks for the poor), framed by Schönberg's atonal piece Pierrot Lunaire....

Chantal Akerman is only 25 when her acclaimed film 'Jeanne Dielman' is released in 1975. It is a bold film, with which she immediately makes a name for herself and will influence many generations of filmmakers. But Akerman is much more than that. In ...

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper....

In the early 90s, a Dutch dance company, ‘t Concern, asked me to join its members in devising a show. They came to me as a filmmaker, because the aim was to come up with a dance-performance that would include moving images. The company consisted of ...