Benoît Peeters
Writing
Known For

From the beginning, Hergé's work, Tintin's creator, was conditioned by the ideology of his publisher, the weekly child supplement of a Belgian Catholic newspaper. An exciting analysis of the political meaning of the adventures of Tintin.
Le Petit Vingtième : le siècle de Tintin

In Paris, an Arab immigrant working as a projectionist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he sees on the cinema screen. Following a visit from a man claiming to be his uncle, his world begins to mirror a macabre and cyclical narrative.
The Blind Owl

Quarxs created between 1990 and 1993, was one of the earliest computer animated series. It predated ReBoot. Each episode was made in HDTV and no more than three minutes long. Only twelve episodes of the original series of 100 have been created. The title was meant to describe a common name on mysterious, omnipresent and invisible creatures that were bending the laws of Physics, biology, optics... Discovered by a CryptoBiologist researcher, the Quarxs are presented as being the only and last explanation of the imperfection of the world. Quarxs is the only fiction animated series by Maurice Benayoun, contemporary artist who dedicates his later work to media art. The series was conceived together with François Schuiten well known Belgian comic book designer. Quarxs has been widely awarded in international events and festivals such as SIGGRAPH, Imagina, Ars Electronica, ISEA, Images du Futur, Sitges, Tampere, International Monitor Awards… The series has been broadcast in more than 15 countries around the world. Creatures: ⁕Amperophile; Attracted to electrical currents ⁕Carno-lampire; A quarx mentioned, but still not described ⁕Elasto fragmentoplast; Breaks small objects
Les Quarxs

A look back at the life of Jacques Derrida, on the 10th anniversary of the philosopher's death.
Jacques Derrida, le courage de la pensée
Short film on Raoul Servais' Servaisgrafie process/invention.
Servaisgraphia

Paul Otlet was a Belgian, *1868, died 1944, who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human knowledge.
The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World

Virgil Ioan, a Romanian journalist, comes to Paris to find out what happened to Constantin Dolinescu, a renowned dissident writer, who disappeared after arriving in France in 1987.
Le dernier plan
On February 7, 1944, the day of the opening of a major exhibition of his work, the Hungarian photographer Oskar Benedek disappeared. More than sixty years later, an investigation reveals his strange fate.
La part de l’ombre

An oversized courthouse, in the heart of Brussels, would hide an initiatory journey. A secret passage would lead the members of a sect composed of politicians and architects who destroy Brussels to build a utopian city.
Le dossier B
Documentary about Hergé