Director
Luc de Heusch
Born 1927 · 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 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.
Directed

Gestes du repas
Director · 1958

Perséphone
Director · 1951

Les amis du plaisir
Director · 1961
I’m Crazy, I’m Foolish, I’m Nasty
Director · 1990

Libre examen 1968
Director · 1968
Fête chez les Hambas
Director

Michel de Ghelderode
Director · 1957

Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
Director · 1967

Magritte or the Object Lesson
Director · 1960
A Republic Gone Mad: Rwanda 1894-1994
Director · 1995

In the Footsteps of the Pale Fox
Director · 1984
Ostende 1930
Director · 2004
Alechinsky d'après nature
Director · 1970

Dotremont-les-logogrammes
Director · 1972
Nkumi, everyday life
Director · 2023
Lotoko
Director · 2023
Burial among the Tetela
Director · 2023
