Ilse “Boogie” Rumes
Boogie is a Belgian filmmaker who loves traveling and is the creator of Hybrid Lounge.
In Belgium she studied Communication Sciences and one year at the Jazz studio.
In the early nineties she went to NYC where she took a variety of classes such as music, theater, and also a class in Basic Filmmaking at NYU. In the meantime she was playing in several bands as a bass player in and around the East Village.
She started hanging out at all the movie sets in NY, checking out a number of different departments.
In the summer of 2001, a couple of years after she had purchased her camera (DSR-250), she came down with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The first three years of this illness she spent almost exclusively in bed having her family in Belgium take care of her.
Little by little she emerged and started to film again mostly for her brainchild “Hybrid Lounge”, which took her to film and interview world music artists. Mentally it saved her, but physically it left her exhausted.
On her journey to health she obtained certification in nutrition and Qi Gong (Soaring Crane) and became a Priestess in Thelemic Wicca. Today she keeps up a daily regime of yoga, Qi Gong and Hermetic Qabbalah exercises, which enable her to manage her condition and function on a more acceptable level.
She divides her time between Belgium and NY and travels to other countries such as India where she produced, directed, shot and edited the award-winning documentary “Kalaripayat: When The Body Becomes All Eyes”.
She is currently working on an experimental documentary about Gnawa, Moroccan trance music and ritual.
For Hybrid lounge she does everything from producing, directing, interviews, research, camerawork and editing and even makes some of the background music.
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Hey! I’ve got a necklace just like it with the matching bracelet. I got them for my birthday a few years ago when I used to live with a bunch of wild cats. My friend Boogie made them for me around the time when she used to have a spot on the Artists and Fleas market. Some of which crawled their way from our apartment to fartsy Bedford avenue. I miss them all. And on my lonely, self pleasurable evenings I wear them both. And nothing else.
Mua!