Rob Rombout
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 8, 1953
- Place of birth
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Biography
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.
Movies directed by Rob Rombout
- Amsterdam Stories USA 2012 · ★ 8.0
- The Azores of Madredeus 1995 · ★ 5.0
- On the Track of Robert van Gulik 2016
- Between Two Towers 1987
- Nord Express 1990
- Transatlantic: Queen Elizabeth 2 1992
- Black Island 1994
- Amsterdam via Amsterdam 2004
- Perm-mission 1999
- The Kerguelen Trap 2000
- Canton, the Chinese City 2001
- The Passengers of Alsace 2002
- Queen Mary 2: The Enterprise 2004
- The Man Who Talked Too Much 1985
- No Present for Noël 1986
- Denken, denken, denken 1978
- Panamerica 2010
- Le pouvoir d'achat des chômeurs 1983