Eric de Kuyper (born 2 September 1942) is a Flemish-Belgian and Dutch writer, semiologist, art critic, and experimental film director.

His academic writing encompasses reviews, essays, articles, and books on semiotics, film, dance, theater, and opera.

His non-traditional films reveal an engineered penchant for melodrama, love songs, and silent movies; their central topic is homosexuality.

Towards the end of the 2000s, he started organizing concerts en images, events in which he combines silent films, some segments shot by himself for the occasions, with live classical music, and sometimes singing and acting.

Eric de Kuyper was born and spent his early childhood in Brussels and then, as he put it, his teenage years of choices swayed by "faith, sexuality, and the future"[1] in Antwerp.

De Kuyper has described himself as belonging to the dying breed of inhabitants of Brussels who are fully bilingual in Dutch (Flemish) and French,[8] he also speaks English and German.

[16]The traveler's thoughts drift from languages to comparisons of European newspaper styles to cross-cultural observations, while his journey brings him to an unusual chance encounter as he transfers to a connecting train at Cologne.

The black-and-white 106'-long feature without a dialogue starts with a stationary camera showing attractive men grooming in front of a mirror[20] while the soundtrack of operatic arias and fragments of other songs challenges the viewer to perceive the two levels as seductive and intoxicating parallels, speculative contrasts, or mold-breaking transgressions.

[21] In his most narrative film, de Kuyper explores the themes of melodrama in the context of the characters' selection of lovers, and drives it in with an unconventional ending.

He intended the balance to bring to the foreground the film's central topic, the exploration of asynchrony at the roots of the Western notion of love.