Olivier van Malderghem seeks to combine reflection on film and audiovisual narration. This search for a balance between theory and practice was first conducted as part of a doctorate in philosophy (ULB) and a master’s degree in editing (INSAS).
He has also been professor at IHECS and the University of Montreal.
Today, he focuses exclusively on production and directing.
He has produced and directed several short films (Au Circuit, The Hanged Dog Tree, Lea’s voice, Darkness). Then, he produced and directed a feature film: Rondo. This film, “Impeccably produced both narratively and stylistically” (Elisabeth Kerr, Hollywood Reporter), has been be selected to compete in three class A festivals: Mostra de Sao Paulo and Busan (Korea), Festival des Films du Monde (Montréal).
He made too documentary feature films: Film-Flamme (Flammable Film) ; Off Limits, on the cinema of Jaco Van Dormael; Masks; Sextuor; Reinita (in progress).
Flammable Film
The narrator films a Montreal alley, just to see. In doing so, he suffers from a heart attack. Between life and death, he reviews what he has lived, but also what he could have lived. And what he will live? In the future. If he does not die there.