Directing
Rob Rombout
- Born
- Jul 8, 1953 · Age 73
- Place of birth
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 0
- TV credits
- 0
- Directing credits
- 18
Also known as (1)
- Robert Rombout
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…