Virgil Leclercq is a Belgian cinematographer, bouncing between Europe and wherever work takes him.

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It all started with an appetite for photography, and the mysterious magic around shaping light.  He later studied cinematography at the RITCS in Brussels, where he graduated with honors. His thesis film received several awards that year, including both the Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Ghent International Film Festival.

 

Since then, Leclercq has worked across commercials, music videos and narratives . He’s worked across different scales, from local productions to international campaigns, with various major clients including Samsung, Toyota, Nike, McDonald’s, Danone, Nestlé, Decathlon ...

 

His work is defined by a strong visual identity with a taste for bold, stripped-back aesthetics. He places particular importance on the creative dialogue with directors, using collaboration as a way to shape and refine ideas, to really come out with something unique, that has its own character.

 

He likes to start from the director’s vision, the base ingredients, and then bring his own taste and ideas into the mix. Every collaboration is different, and that’s also what makes it interesting.
 

On set, he keeps it simple: good communication, good energy, solid crew. The motto: pushing the vision, having fun with the craft and surround yourself with good people.

 

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