Jean-Pierre Mesmaeker n’est plus. Tout le monde se l’arrachait. Tout le monde aimait sa compagnie. Tout le monde appréciait son savoir faire. Il faisait partie des équipes d’électros de cette première génération d’opérateurs. Il n’y avait pas grand chose dans notre pays dans ces années 50/60. Il y avait quelques...

by Yves Cape. We follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy...

by Yves Cape.   Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. Although a...

As filmmakers we are confronted at an ever rapid pace with new cameras , new ways to finish and show our films. How are we as cinematographers driven by the fast changing technological side of our business. Does the fast pace have an influence on the creative side of film...

For almost one hundred years there was only one way to make a movie — with film. Movies were shot, edited and projected using photochemical film. But over the last two decades a digital process has emerged to challenge photochemical filmmaking. SIDE BY SIDE, a new documentary produced by Keanu Reeves, takes an...

Cinematographer JF Hensgens AFC, SBC talks about his collaboration on Joachim Lafosse’s last movie “A perdre la Raison”   Jean François Hensgens SBC, who joined the AFC in 2010, began his career as First AC on the Dardenne’s brothers movies “La Promesse”, “Rosetta” and “Le Fils”. He was then assisting...

  Upon exiting a screening of John Shank’s “ The last Winter” , we were impressed by the beauty of the landscapes, interiors in faint light, the perfect harmony of light and shadows, shades of darkness. The impression of having contemplated a series of paintings, warm colors of the earth,...

North Sea Texas is a film by Bavo Defurne and shot by Anton Mertens. Pim lives with his ex-beauty queen, single mother in a small town on the Belgian coast.  An introverted boy, Pim brightens up his days with drawing and dreaming up fantasy lives.  He expresses his emerging desires...

His background is impressive: documentary, short and feature films, commercials, music videos or television series, Michel van Laer does not stop a second! Currently filming the television series ASPE (aired on VTM), he works with the Arri Alexa. Hosted on the set, the atmosphere is very friendly. With the whole...

Jean-Paul Dezaetijd a reçu le "2012 Magritte du cinéma" pour la photographie sur le film de Bouli Lanners: Les Géants. Le film a également remporté le prix du meilleur film.

Some films shot by our members have been selected at this years Cannes film festival. Yves Cape for “Holly Motors” by Leos Carax. ( co-credit with Caroline Champetier afc) Philippe Guilbert for “J’engage de son absence” by Sandrine Bonnaire. Jean François Hensgens for “A perdre la raison”  by Joachim Lafosse....

Four friends (in their late twenties) go on a reunion weekend to the sea, to the house where they spent their teenage years. What should have been a convivial gathering deteriorates into an unavoidable personal and mutual confrontation. They understand that they must reassess their friendship and realize that their...

Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro star in Limitless, a paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unpublished writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret smart drug that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that...

After having worked up his way as a lighting technician, Glynn Speeckaert divided his career as a DOP on feature films and numerous international commercials. Based for some time now in the US , he has a filmography of English, German or French films. After having replaced Yorrick Le Saux...

Yves Cape studied at the INSAS film school in Brussels. After having started out as an assistant he made his debut as DOP on short films in the 90’s. His encounter with Alain Berliner on the short film Rose ( 1993) led to the signing for the photography of the...

Alain Marcoen studied at the IAD Brussels, But not being very attracted to the pressures a camera assistant has to face, he preferred to start out as a lighting technician. Getting some work on documentaries and drama, he met Jean-Claude Riga for whom he started to operate. Being from Liège...

by Louis Philippe Capelle. “Un soupçon d’innocence “ Olivier Peray is a director with whom I had shot two other tv movies a couple of years ago using super 16mm. This film was originally written as a feature film but in the end got financed as a tv movie, still...

Five years in the making, Oceans is a film that mixes documentary and fiction to bring the wonders of maritime life to the big screen. Luc Drion talks about his work on this epic undertaking.

Harragas tells the story of a group of men and women who desperately want to leave Algeria by crossing the mediterranean sea in a barge. Directed by Merzak Allouache and shot by Phillipe Guilbert.

Twelve year old Louis is living in a remote village in southern Morocco with his parents and brother. One day, his manic-depressive father confides a terrible secret to him: «Tonight I’ll kill myself». From that moment, Louis is no longer a child. Day and night, he watches over his father like a guardian angel….a fallen ange

  Jean-Francois Hensgens TETE DE TURC « SCAPEGOAT » a film by Pascal Elbé shot by Jean-Francois Hensgens. At the end of 2008, I was contacted by actor/screenwriter Pascal Elbé, who was in search of a D.O.P. to assist him in his first directorial effort. It was Roschy Zem who had told...

by Frank Van Den Eeden Nanouk Leopold’s ‘Brownian Movement’ focusses on Sandra Hüller (Silver Bear 2006 for Requiem) and Dutch-Serbian Dragan Bakema as a couple facing crisis. Swiss Sabine Timoteo also has an important part, just as the buildings of architect Le Corbusier in Chandigarh (Millowner’s Association Building) and Ahmedabad (Palais...

by Glynn Speeckaert 22 may is a day in the life of Sam, a colorless, dull man who gets involved in a terrorist attack. It marks the second feature film collaboration for director Koen Mortier and Glynn Speeckaert, following their 2007 film “Ex-drummer”. The style of the film? Gus Van...

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