Boris Lehman

Boris Lehman (1944) is a Belgian filmmaker and author, living and working in Brussels. Born in 1944 in a Jewish family, Boris Lehman creates images of his own obsessions, sometimes related to his Jewish origins. Lehman’s way of life is inextricably bound up with a way of filming, where relationships are formed through mise-en-scène and the camera is used as a mirror through which Lehman defines himself. In his autobiographical oeuvre, he maps out his own life and that of the inhabitants of his city, Brussels. Staging everyday moments, Lehman works with minimal means, but always with an articulated mise-en-scène that bears his unmistakable signature. The exchanges between him and his colleagues regularly resulted in collaborations. Boris Lehman worked closely together with filmmakers such as Henri Storck on Fêtes de Belgique (1970-1971), a ten-part report on Belgian folk festivals, and assisted Chantal Akerman during the shooting of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 bruxelles (1975).