Nationality Belgian Name Luc Heusch | Role Filmmaker | |
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Occupation Anthropologist, filmmaker, writer Died August 7, 2012, Brussels, Belgium Education Universite libre de Bruxelles Movies Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday, Magritte, Alechinsky d'apres nature, At Table, Persephone Books Sacrifice in Africa: A Structural, The Drunken King - Or, Why Marry Her?: Society a Similar People Henri Storck, Jean Raine, Georges Thines, Hugo Claus, Marie‑France Boyer | ||
De Heusch, entretien et rencontre.
Luc de Heusch (7 May 1927 – 7 August 2012) was a Belgian filmmaker, writer, and anthropologist, professor emeritus at the Free University of Brussels. His 1967 film Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
Contents
- De Heusch entretien et rencontre
- Luc de Heusch Sur les traces du renard ple Recherches en pays Dogon 1931 1983
- Life
- Select filmography
- References
Luc de Heusch - Sur les traces du renard pâle (Recherches en pays Dogon, 1931-1983)
Life
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. 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 Université Libre de Bruxelles