Van Lancker Laurent

Laurent Van Lancker both studied Film and Anthropology. He lectures at filmschools (INSAS Brussels, Film Academy Amsterdam) and universities (WWU Münster, AMU Marseille). He is Professor of Audiovisual Anthropology at Aix-Marseille University. He co-founded SIC – SoundImageCulture project lab. He made fifteen films (experimental, documentaries and fictions) and won nine awards. His early documentary works explored social and religious themes. Followed by a series of short works called 'Experimental Ethnographies'. Lately, he made three long-feature films around migration themes – Brak (fiction), Kalès (documentary), We Others (Hybrid). His works draw on various modes: Collaborative, Hybrid and Sensory cinema. They propose a dialogue between ethics and aesthetics, poetics and politics. His academic writings centres on sensory ethnography, audiovisual anthropology intercultural dialogue, narrative structuring, participative methodologies, and interdisciplinary research.