Filmmaker, writer and film lecturer Eric Pauwels started his career with what he calls โcinรฉma mรฉmoireโ, or ethnographic documentary. He obtained his PHD in cinematography in Paris with a documentary on the โpossessedโ in Indonesia. Afterwards, eager to step out of his role of being a spectator, Pauwels begins to make dance videos and works of fiction. The latter are so-called โhalf filmsโ: half documentary, half fiction. But which distance does one keep to oneโs subjects? Pauwelsโ answer is clear: eliminate the distance and become a subject amongst your subjects. For him, cinema and life should ideally coincide; fiction should penetrate documentary.