[2] Luc de Heusch began his career in film in 1947 as assistant to Henri Storck.
In 1951, under the pseudonym Luc Zangrie, he directed Perséphone, the only film produced by the CoBrA artistic movement.
In 1953 and 1954 he carried out anthropological fieldwork in the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.
Like Henri Storck and Charles Dekeukeleire, he also made documentary films about the Congo.
From 1955 to 1992 he was professor of social and cultural anthropology at the Free University of Brussels, later Université libre de Bruxelles.