Jean Brismée
Belgian film director and author
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Jean Brismée (August 20, 1926 – January 18, 2024) was a Belgian film director, author of documentary and fantasy films,[1] best known for the 1971 cult horror film The Devil's Nightmare.[2][3]
He was born at Pipaix, Leuze-en-Hainaut, Belgium.[1]
He authored about 40 films,[1] but The Devil's Nightmare was the only full feature film of his.[3]
In 1962 he was among the founders of Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion, a Belgian film school.[1][3]
He obtained a degree in mathematical sciences from the Free University of Brussels.[4] After that he became passionate in filmmaking and pioneered making educational shorts, starting with Le théorème de Pythagore (1955, about the Pythagorean theorem).[5]
His short Monsieur Plateau received a unanimous Special Jury Prize of Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.[6]
In 1995 he published the book Cinéma: cent ans de cinéma en Belgique.[1]
