BIOGRAPHIEFrom coal
mines to prisons, from Brazil and the
Maghreb to black Africa, Thierry Michel has always denounced
peoples’ distress
and shared their revolts, sometimes in a mixture of fiction and
reality. Born
on 13 October 1952 in Charleroi in Belgium in an industrial region
known as “Black
Country”, Thierry Michel began studying at the Institut des
Arts de Diffusion
in Brussels at age 16. In 1976, he started working at the Belgian
television
where he made numerous reports around the world. He then went on to
filmmaking.
He directed two feature-length fiction films, Hiver 60 which dealt with
his
country’s political situation and Issue de secours, a very
personal and poetic
piece. Yet his oeuvre is especially known for his many documentaries,
which
have received international recognition and awards and have been shown
around
the world. Among them are Gosses de Rio; Zaïre, le cycle du
serpent; Donka,
X-Ray of an African Hospital; Mobutu, King of Zaire; Iran: Veiled
Appearances
and Congo River.
FILMOGRAPHIE
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