Roland Lethem
Roland Lethem (born 1942) is a Belgian filmmaker and writer.
Influenced at his beginnings by Buñuel , Cocteau , the surrealists and by the Japanese cinema ( Seijun Suzuki , Ishirō Honda , Kōji Wakamatsu , Yoko Ono ), stunned by the Festival of the experimental film of Knokke in 1967 and by May 1968, Roland Lethem wants to push the people to look at the things of which they say they are freed, it's to say to place them in front of their responsibilities. Even if sometimes the results leaves much to be desired, the idea of each one of his films is seductive and exemplary. A fact is certain, his films are disturbing, they are sometimes unpleasant to look at. The narcissistic and provocative play of the debut turned itself into direct, visual, and verbal insult, and in slandering. His dream was one moment to be able to film the intimate life of the pope or the sexual plays of the Belgian sovereigns. Through violence, pornography and cruelty of some scenes, Roland Lethem is a gentle, generous man with a lot of humor. The work of Roland Lethem evolves, becomes political, ecological. The Ballad of the cursed lovers, 1966 or The Bloodthirsty Fairy, 1968 still tell stories. The Sufferings of a ravaged Egg , 1967, poem of love in several parts (Étoiles/Stars, Corps/Bodies, Hymen/Marriage or Hymen (ambiguous in French), Oeuf/Egg) dedicated to all who conceive and to all who are conceived, irresistibly makes you think at the Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye, 1928) of Georges Bataille .
Acting
Movie
The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg
1967
Movie
Cinématon
as N°161
1978
Movie
Pieces of Identity
as Night Club manager
1998
Movie
Beef Cattle
as vagrant
1979
Movie
Cold Head
as Man in orgy
1970
Movie
Le sexe enragé
as L'homme dans le lit
1970
Movie
In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx
as Man in orgy (archive footage)
1974
Movie
Le journal de Joseph M.
as Génie Morlock
2000
Movie
Jean-Gina B.
as apostle
1984
Movie
Marilyn's La(te)st Love Song
1978
Movie
Jardins clandestins
2012
Movie
La Double Insomnie
1963
Movie
Sprookje, of l'homme-objet
1972
Movie
Le Vice et la Vertu
as Man
1973
Movie
Super huître
1974
Movie
Lili au lit
as The father
1965
Movie
Grève et pets
1975
Movie
Cocktail Morlock
as Self
1981
Movie
Cinéma
1997
Movie
2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Movie
Cinématon XVII
as N°161
1982
Movie
EXPRMNTL
as Himself
2016
Movie
La tête d'un frère
1975
Movie
Crime contre le cinéma
2020
Crew
Movie
Amer
Thanks
2009
Movie
The Bloodthirsty Fairy
Director
1969
Movie
The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg
Director
1967
Movie
Le Petit Bonhomme Vert
Director
2013
Movie
Le sexe enragé
Writer
1970
Movie
Le vampire de la cinémathèque
Director
1971
Movie
In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx
Director
1974
Movie
La Saga de Madiana
Writer
1981
Movie
Hostel Party
Director
1990
Movie
Bunch of Assholes!
Director
1970
Movie
Gourmandises
Writer
2004
Movie
Pierre
Editor
1977