Rob Rombout

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Rob Rombout (born in Amsterdam, 1953; raised in Zaandam) is a documentary filmmaker, photographer and teacher, based in Brussels since 1975 and now also in Lisbon. Since a 1978 student film he has made some forty works, many broadcast by ARTE, RTBF and France Télévisions: films set in closed worlds that move, such as a night train to Moscow, a transatlantic liner and a North Sea oil rig, and films about places that borrowed a name, among them Amsterdam Stories USA (2012, with Rogier van Eck; IDFA; Audience Award, IndieLisboa 2013) and On the Track of Robert van Gulik (2016). His method is the subject of Marc-Emmanuel Mélon's monograph La mise en scène du réel (2022). He taught documentary directing at Sint-Lukas, now LUCA School of Arts, from 1988 to 2018, and was a founding member of the DocNomads master and its course director in Brussels, 2012–2019. His photographs, collected in PORTRAITS / on the road (2024), have been shown in Paris, Lisbon and Bredevoort.

Filmography

• On the Track of Robert van Gulik (2016)
• Amsterdam Stories USA (2012)
• Panamerica (2010)
• Queen Mary 2: The Enterprise (2004)
• Amsterdam via Amsterdam (2004)
• The Passengers of Alsace (2002)
• Canton, the Chinese City (2001)
• The Kerguelen Trap (2000)
• Perm-mission (1999)
• The Azores of Madredeus (1995)
• Black Island (1994)
• Transatlantic: Queen Elizabeth 2 (1992)
• Nord Express (1990)
• Between Two Towers (1987)
• No Present for Noël (1986)
• The Man Who Talked Too Much (1985)
• Le pouvoir d'achat des chômeurs (1983)
• Denken, denken, denken (1978)