Bram Van Paesschen
Bram Van Paesschen (1979 – 10 January 2025) was a Belgian film director and editor.
Bram Van Paesschen
- Name
- Bram Van Paesschen
- Born
- 1979
- Birthplace
- Vilvoorde, Belgium
- Place of death
- Laeken, Belgium
- Occupation
- Film director and editor
- Known for
- Empire of Dust
- Died
- 2025 · Laeken.
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Education
- LUCA and campus Sint-Lukas Brussels
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• Name — Bram Van Paesschen • Born — 1979 • Birthplace — Vilvoorde, Belgium • Place of death — Laeken, Belgium • Occupation — Film director and editor • Known for — Empire of Dust
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Van Paesschen was born in Vilvoorde in 1979. He moved to Brussels where he studied film at Sint-Lukas Hogeschool. His 2002 mockumentary graduation project Rookgordijn over Brussel about the 1967 L'Innovation department store fire was shown after his graduation at several international film festivals, including FID Marseille and the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente. The film became a Belgian cult classic. The second film he directed, World of Blue / Land of O. (2005), won an award. He directed the 2011 Empire of Dust, a documentary about the China Railway Seventh Group building a road in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The film won the 2012 Docville Best Belgian documentary. He also directed ICI (Une lettre à Chantal Akerman) (2007), Pale Peko Bantu Mambo Ayikosake (2008), I'm New Here (2017) and De aanbidding (2017). In addition he edited films of among others Jeroen Van Der Stock, Jonas Govaerts and Rachida El Gara, including Silent Visitors and Wild Beast. Van Paesschen died in Laeken on 10 January 2025, at the age of 45.
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- 1.Interview met Bram Van Paesschen. kutfilm.be. September 2002.
- 2.Documentairemaker Bram Van Paesschen (45) onverwacht overleden in Laken. Het Laatste Nieuws. 13 January 2025.
- 3.In memoriam Bram Van Paesschen. deauteurs.be. 13 January 2025.
- 4.Brusselse documentairemaker Bram Van Paesschen (45) overleden. bruzz. 12 January 2024.
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