Eric de Kuyper | |
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| Born | Eric Firmin Petrus de Kuyper 2 September 1942 Brussels, Belgium |
| Occupation | Novelist, filmmaker, semiologist |
| Language | Dutch (Flemish), French, English, German |
| Alma mater | Rits, Erasmushogeschool Brussel; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, PhD) |
| Period | 1980s–present |
| Genre | Autobiographical novel, Bildungsroman, mystery, short story, screenplay; essay, academic non-fiction, art criticism, reviews |
| Subject | 3rd-person autobiography, human condition; semiotics, cinema, dance, homosexuality |
| Notable awards | Golden Calf Special Jury Prize Netherlands Film Festival |
| Partner | Emile Poppe |
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Eric de Kuyper (born 2 September 1942) is a Flemish-Belgian and Dutch writer, semiologist, art critic, and experimental film director. Fictionalized autobiographical novels, written in the 3rd-person, account for most of his creative work. His academic writing encompasses reviews, essays, articles, and books on semiotics, film, dance, theater, and opera. His non-traditional films reveal an engineered penchant for melodrama, love songs, and silent movies; their central topic is homosexuality. Towards the end of the 2000s, he started organizing concerts en images, events in which he combines silent films, some segments shot by himself for the occasions, with live classical music, and sometimes singing and acting.