Portrait by Piera De Nicolao

Eric Desjeux is an independent filmmaker, music composer and sound designer. He has been immersed in the image from a very young age, so it was quite natural for him to turn to film and audiovisual studies, first at the University of Paris 8 (France) and the University of Montreal (Canada) and then at INSAS in Brussels (Belgium).

Insatiable traveler, he has been traveling the planet since his birth and explore all the continents to carry out his various activities.

His professional career is rich and varied, CANAL+, documentaries made for UNESCO and ERN, assistant director and camera on several African, French and Belgian feature films, audiovisual scenographer at the Museum of Natural History in Paris during the year of Algeria in France, sound and video designer for multiple live performance projects.
He is also programmed in many international digital art and electronic music festivals such as Musica Electronica Nova in Wroclaw (PL), Vidéodrome at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto (CA), Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels (BE), Kybushi in Tokyo (JP), Bozar Electronic Arts Festival in Brussels (BE), Mapping Festival in Geneva (CH), Cimatics in Brussels (BE), Vision Sonic in Paris (FR), Jogja Noise Bombing in Yogyakarta (ID) and many others for video installations, live A/V performances and concerts.

As a composer/musician, Eric Desjeux compose for films, performing arts and any other mediums involving sound while at the same time performing on stage around the world (Japan, United States, Europe, Africa, Australia, Mexico, Indonesia, South-East Asia...), and has given to date no less than 1000 concerts and public performances. He also collaborated with many other international musicians such as Steve MacKay (The Stooges), Mike Watt (Minutemen, The Stooges), Marshall Allen (Sun-Ra Arkestra), to name a few.

Eric Desjeux was Thierry De Mey's assistant at Charleroi/Danses for several years and works in the field of performing arts for and with various artists such as Pierre Droulers, Jaco Van Dormael, Wim Vandekeybus / Ultima Vez, Kate McIntosh, Ant Hampton, Thomas Hauert, Begüm Erciyas, Vincent Glowinski, Taoufiq Izzediou / Anania, Olga De Soto, Norah Krief, Arantxa Martinez, Nadia Lauro, Eduardo Abdala, Robin Kobrynski, Pierre Vanneste, Jean-François Roversi, Laura Ughetto, Vincianne Sestito and many more, in various countries, from Scandinavia to Mexico through most of Western Europe.

In parallel, he documents the world through photography and field recording works.