Boris Van Der Avoort

Filmes

The Wakeful Sleeper
Himself + voice-over
B., a film-maker and insomniac, decides to rescue his hours of insomnia from the void by filming his quest for sleep. The insomniac asks questions about these different states of consciousness and about the difficulties humans have in synchronising their social rhythms and biological ones.
The Wakeful Sleeper
Director of Photography
B., a film-maker and insomniac, decides to rescue his hours of insomnia from the void by filming his quest for sleep. The insomniac asks questions about these different states of consciousness and about the difficulties humans have in synchronising their social rhythms and biological ones.
The Wakeful Sleeper
Editor
B., a film-maker and insomniac, decides to rescue his hours of insomnia from the void by filming his quest for sleep. The insomniac asks questions about these different states of consciousness and about the difficulties humans have in synchronising their social rhythms and biological ones.
The Wakeful Sleeper
Writer
B., a film-maker and insomniac, decides to rescue his hours of insomnia from the void by filming his quest for sleep. The insomniac asks questions about these different states of consciousness and about the difficulties humans have in synchronising their social rhythms and biological ones.
The Wakeful Sleeper
Director
B., a film-maker and insomniac, decides to rescue his hours of insomnia from the void by filming his quest for sleep. The insomniac asks questions about these different states of consciousness and about the difficulties humans have in synchronising their social rhythms and biological ones.
La Valse
Editor
La Valse is dance a film by Thierry De Mey based on the choreography created on Maurice Ravel’s La Valse as the final part of ZOO’s performance Accords. Created as part of the triptych Equi Voci, the film La Valse exists in versions for one or three screens.
Le Champ des visions
Director
"Le champ des visions" a documentary that addresses the relationship between man and animal-insect through stories, legends, memories, intimate sensations... I spent 4 years questioning the relationship between insect man. I filmed hundreds of hours of images, read captions, listened to stories, revisited my memories and my feelings to finally make a film: "Le champ des visions". This film is an invitation to share my encounter with beauty, strangeness, difference. Reporting on my personal quest is a tribute to gay knowledge. But it is also a manifesto for the freedom to slow down, to rediscover the child in us, its curiosity, its wonder. Let's cross the limits imposed by our senses, our habits, our prejudices to invigorate our sometimes sclerotic approach to the world...