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LÉO GHYSELS

Film editing

Post production

As an editor of fictions, documentaries, TV productions and experimental films, I collaborate with directors, artists and productions to bring films to their highest potential working with the visual elements, sound, story, artistic vision and concept.
My professional focus is on film editing, with proficiency in visual effects, sound and post-production management.
I studied and worked in a variety of countries which gave me the opportunity to cooperate with artists of different backgrounds and environments.

Latest works...

Between the Lines (2024) by Marjolijn Dijkman

'A visual essay film with an orchestra of robotic drummers playing trunks from the protected forest near Verdun.'

'The research project ‘Between the Lines’ focuses on the catastrophic effects of drought and climate change in the forests of the Zone Rouge in the North East of France. It relates to the ongoing struggle to deal with the aftermath and remnants of the First World War within the global climate crisis, which impacted this particular landscape on a monumental scale.' ...

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Maturation Station (2024) shortfilm by Melissa Mabesoone

The film 'slips through themes of blue economy, aquaculture, reproduction and sensuality, mothering, consumerism, animal suffering and the fish and food industry, performance and dramedy.'

REPORTAGE

TV CHANNELS

SHOWS

TRAILERS

POSITIONS

film editor • film editing supervisor • Special effects editor • Postproduction manager • Writer

Works executed in the company Matchpoint Productions (Brussels, Belgium)

ALL SHOWS and EPISODES

STRIPTEASE (RMC STORY) 2019

A fond la caisse (15') Writer, Film editor & post production
SOS, papa divorce (18)' Writer, Film editor & post production
Elle est pas belle ma viande (19') Writer, Film editor & post production
Le roi de la sape (17') Film editor & post production
Aide ton prochain, tes voisins te le rendront (20') Film editor & post production

ENQUÊTE SOUS HAUTE TENSION (C8)

Au cœur du rallye des milliardaires sans limites (2 x 52') 2018-2020, Film editor & post production
Au cœur d’un spring break américain (90') 2019, Film editor & post production
Au cœur de la plus prison de haute sécurité des Etats-Unis (52') 2019, Film editor & post production

ENQUÊTE D'ACTION (W9)

Riviera belge : un été mouvementé (52') 2018, Film editor & post production

ETAT DE CHOC (W9)

Familles Nombreuses : ces familles hors norme qui fascinent l'Amérique (52') 2018, Film editor & post production

APPELS D'URGENCE (TFX)

Drogues et prostitution : la face cachee de la frontiere belge (52') 2019, Film editor & post production
Super flics de Belgique contre délinquants français (52') 2018 Film editor & post production

90' ENQUÊTE (TMC)

Autoroute de la drogue, trafics, maisons closes, alerte à la frontière belge (90') 2018, Film editor & post production

Original documentary (C8)

La vérité sur la viande que vous mangez (100') 2017, Film editor & post production, press

ENQUÊTE EXCLUSIVE (M6)

Belgique, le grand retour de la fête (60') 2021, Camera operator
Au coeur de la plus grande foire d'Amérique (60') 2019, Film editor & post production
Adoption aux USA : un scandaleux marché aux enfants (60') 2018, Film editor & post production
Touristes aux Baléares : la grande invasion (60') 2017, Film editor & post production

AU COMMISSARIAT (RTL TVI)

Au Commissariat (Pilot & Season 1) 2019, Film editor & post production

TRAILERS

FILMS

POSITIONS

film editor, image and sound • Assistant editor • postproduction manager

ALL FILMS

DOCUMENTARIES

2017 - DAUGHTER OF GENETICS by Alexis Gambis (ImaginalDisc)
Film editor
2015 - THE EMPTY ROOM (LA CHAMBRE VIDE) by Jasna Krajinovic (Dérives)
Assistant film editor
2014 - CAMPO EXPERIMENTAL by Alexis Gambis (ImaginalDisc)
Film editor
2014 - 31 STOPS (31 HALTES) by Dorothée Van Den Berghe and Griet Van Reeth (KVS)
Assistant film editor

FEATURE FILMS

2021 - FACTORY KIDS by Elijah Debot (Njutafilms)
Film editor
2018 - JUSTE UN MOUVEMENT by Vincent Meessen (Jubilee)
Assistant film editor
2017 - KISS & CRY by Chloé Mahieu and Lila Pinell (Ecce Films)
Assistant film editor
2016 - X&Y by Anna Odell (Fasad)
Assistant Film editor
2015 - WHERE IS ROCKY II by Pierre Bismuth (Frakas)
Film editor
2015 - THE LAST GAME by Kurt Cammon & Ihlan Akgul (Tarantula)
Assistant film editor
2013 - FAUST 2.0 - Anthology film / Segment by Nicolas Debot (Njutafilms)
Film editor - VFX - Post production

SHORT FILMS

2024 - MATURATION STATION by Melissa Mabesoone (Au Bureau vzw)
Assistant film editor
2016 - BEHIND THE IMAGINARY by Hiba Chaari (ESAVPROD Marrakech)
Assistant film editor
2016 - VI BARA LYDER (AS WE'RE TOLD) by Erik Holmström and Fredrik Wenze (FASAD, Svenska Television)
Assistant film editor
2016 - INFANTILE by Vera Sjunnesson
Film editor
2015 - FLYING PHOSPHORUS AND SHOOTING STARS by Akiko Okumura (Le Fresnoy)
Film editor
2013 - CHAPELLE ARDENTE by Julien Noël (Les Films Invisibles)
Film editor

TRAILER

2015 - TRAILER : 'LE CHANT DES HOMMES' - by Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jimenez (Tarantula)
Film editor

VIDEO ART

TRAILERS

POSITIONS

Video editor • Special effects editor • Postproduction manager • experimental video recording

Collaboration with artists and collective: Marjolijn Dijkman, Toril Johannessen, Eleni Kamma, Vincent Meessen, Pom Bouvier-b, Jubilee

ALL VIDEO ART WORKS

2023 - 2024 - BETWEEN THE LINES Video installation by Marjolijn Dijkman
Assistant film editor & post production
2018 - 2022 - CASTING CALL Series of short films directed by Eleni Kamma (Jubilee, Mondriaan Fund, VAF Filmlab)
Film editor & post production
2021 - DEPTH OF DISCHARGE Short experimental film by Marjolijn Dijkman (On Trade Off) Assistant editor & post production
2020 - REMOTE ENTANGLEMENTS Video art installation by Marjolijn Dijkman - Solo exhibition at Club Solo, Breda
Film editor & post production
2018 - TEASER for 'Reclaiming Vision' by Marjolijn Dijkman Toril Johannessen (Munchmuseet on the Move)
Film editor
2018 - RECLAIMING VISION Short film by Marjolijn Dijkman & Toril Johannessen (Munchmuseet on the Move), Oslo
Assistant editor & post production
2018 - NAVIGATING POLARITIES Video art installation by Marjolijn Dijkman - 21st Biennale of Sydney
Assistant editor and post production
2018 - ULTRAMARINE Short film by Vincent Meessen (Jubilee Art)
Assistant film editor
2018 - OMAR EN MAI Solo Exhibition by Vincent Meessen - Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris 28/03 – 28/05/2018 (Jubilee Art)
Assistant film editor

SCIENCE FILMS

Art and creation are the fields I chose for my professional career. However, I always had a great interest in science. This is why I took part in a years-long collaboration with Alexis Gambis — a French-Venezuelan filmmaker, biologist and founder of Labocine. This allowed me to get involved as an editor of two documentaries and the interviews series My Mind's Eye published on Scientific American's website and hosted by neuroscientist, author and musician Joseph E. LeDoux. All these projects were made with the purpose of connecting Art and Science.

ALL SCIENCE FILMS

DOCUMENTARIES

2017 - DAUGHTER OF GENETICS (50') by Alexis Gambis (ImaginalDisc)
Film editor
'Betsey Bridges Black, the daughter of Calvin Bridges, one of the fathers of genetics that worked in The Fly Room in the Morgan talks about her father, genetics and what she inherited.'
2014 - CAMPO EXPERIMENTAL (71') by Alexis Gambis (ImaginalDisc)
Film editor
'From Rio de Janeiro's beaches to the Amazon wildlife crossing though the urban jungle of Sao Paolo, this essay explores the state of science and art in Brazil as the World Cup takes over the country. Soccer becomes not only an obsession but also a distraction, a fear, a hope and the platform to discuss emerging technologies, advances in body and mind communication, the preservation of culture and the future of our planet.'
Premiere: Labocine & Popular Science Magazine

MY MIND'S EYE INTERVIEWS (2014 - 2021)

Director: Alexis Gambis, Host: Joseph Ledoux, Editor: Léo Ghysels

György Buzsáki, Biggs Professor of Neuroscience at New York University School of Medicine
Cori Bargmann, Torsten Wiesel Professor and Howard Hughes Investigator at the Rockefeller University, about the roots of behavior
Elizabeth Phelps, cognitive neuroscientist known for her research at the intersection of memory, learning, and emotion
Michael Gazzaniga, Professor of Psychology and Director for the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California Santa Barbara