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Rik Kuypers

Rik Kuypers

Director

Films

De Obool

De Obool

By Rik Kuypers

1966 | 85 min | Independent

Arno's contract with the petroleum company in the Sahara has come to an end. He returns to Europe. On his way to the port, he has engine trouble. He fails to get the car started again. Suddenly, as if in a mirage, he sees the rubble of an old palace. He stumbles toward it and meets all sorts of strange people. Slowly the palace disappears and he notices that his chariot has been repaired.

Jillali

Jillali

By Rik Kuypers

1965 | 20 min | Shorts

About the friendship between a Western tourist and a coachman from Morocco.

Seagulls Die in the Harbour

Seagulls Die in the Harbour

By Ivo Michiels, Rik Kuypers

1955 | 82 min | Timeless

A pessimistic urban drama, with a musical score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, charts in strongly expressionistically lit black-and-white images the wanderings of a tormented man through the cosmopolitan port city of Antwerp. The only people to show him understanding are an orphan and two disillusioned women.