Jan Vromman is a Belgian documentary filmmaker.
Jan Vromman once hesitated between studying for a degree in history and becoming a film director. In the meantime, it has become mostly documentary filmmaking, and not infrequently concerns subjects that require research, point of view, historical insight. Documentaries like 'As Long as Shipbuilders Sing' and 'The Art of Tree Cutting' or 'Le petit jeune homme de Binche' bear witness to this.
But thinking remains multimedia and transversal. Curiosity also drove Jan Vromman into theatre, social-artistic projects, installations and even fiction work. Whereas audiovisual work often takes a character as the support for a film, I like to choose a social, broad fact. Commitment and emotion should not get in the way of insight and analysis. The most recent documentary: 'The History of the Pig (in Us)' is an illustration of this. Not a true journalistic work in the sense of getting bogged down in a current event, but rather a meditation that situates the present based on the entire past history.
