Laurent Van Lancker
Kalès
65 min – DCP – Stereo – 2017
An intimate and inside perspective of the ‘jungle’ of Calais, evoked through a polyphony of men, tales, and atmospheres. A sensory journey through the social life and survival strategies of migrants.
A film of wind and despair, of fire and solidarity, of hope and hell.
Sharing the daily life of migrants, on numerous visits during the entire duration of the ‘jungle’, and often using a collaborative methodology (images and narrations partly produced by the migrants), the director Laurent Van Lancker, proposes a film that is both poetical and political, evoking an untold and internal perception on the faculty of adaptation and social life of migrants.
Grand Prix and Prix Quandrature du Cercle at FATP Festival,Theatrical release.
Disorient
36 min - 35, 16mm & Super 8 transferred to video- Stereo – 2010
Polyphony of tales by migrants who returned to their homeland after having spent many years abroad. Whether they are Vietnamese, Indian, Syrian, Iranian, Chinese, Pakistani, academics, contract workers, political refugees, businessmen, or students, ... they confront us with humor and critical distance on the complexity of migration and returning home.
This experimental documentary avoids showing 'talking heads', but proposes a subtle and sensorial form, which gives a soul to film black. Voices and soundscapes lead the narrative structure. Starting from quasi-darkness this film evolves through experimentations on film reels (35mm, 16mm, Super8) to traces of travels and material culture. The outcome evokes the reminiscences of personal impressions and the vestiges of different cultures that still inhabit the protagonists’ memories.
First Prize at VideoEX Film Festival 2011
Video On Demand (streaming or Download ) for this film exists
through the DocAlliance Films Distribution site.
Direct link: http://dafilms.com/film/8902-disorient/
Majjudo, Lost Man
28 min - Super 8 & video –Stereo - 2009
Cine-poem and sensorial drifting in a French-Senegalese experience of Shadow cinema.
Someone who leaves the dying fire without his torchlight is a lost man.
Video On Demand (streaming or Download ) for this film exists
through the DocAlliance Films Distribution site.
Direct link: http://dafilms.com/film/8901-majjudo/
Surya
76 min - 35mm – Dolby SR – 2006
Once upon a journey, ten contemporary storytellers of different cultures create an imaginary epic story. They each draw on their own style and own language to prolong the life of a nameless hero. The aromas of cultures, the taste of words, and the perfume of traveling carry us from one storyteller to the next.
Like an epic story, this film oscillates between imagination and reality, the inner world and the outside world, documentary, and fiction. An ode to orality.
This impressionistic film is the outcome of an overland odyssey by public transport from dusk to dawn, through Europe and Asia (Belgium, Slovakia, Turkey, Syria, Kurdistan, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Tibet, China, and Vietnam). An audio-visual performance where imagination and creativity travel across borders.
Video On Demand (streaming or Download ) for this film exists
through the DocAlliance Films Distribution site.
Direct link: http://dafilms.com/film/7195-surya/
Golden Deer (and Audience Award at RODOS Int. Film and Visual Arts
Festival
SCAM Documentary Price 2007.
Theatrical Release.
Retroviseurs (Reflectors)
24 min – video – stereo – 2004
Ode to the banality of a journey between Dakar and Kolda, from the urban and the rural, from the centre and the margin. This film is constructed and deconstructed along the road. Cinematographic improvisation. Collaborative filmmaking. Sharing a journey and a film.
“31 nights: my palestinian encounters”
28 min – video – stereo – 2003
Thirty-one encounters, thirty-one nights: a personal diary that maps the discovery of a different Palestine - intimate, self-reflexive, and full of hidden poetry.
Made in the framewok of '100 artists in Palestine' (IETM) project
Eth(n)ics Viêtnam
26 min - video - stereo – 2001
An autobiographical film about the challenges and the failings of a first documentary shoot.
Eth(n)ics oscillates between a travel journal and anthropology, as the filmmaker is confronted with the universe of north-Vietnamese ethnic minorities and his own ethical dilemmas.