Ieperlaan

Original Title | Ieperlaan

Middellang | 65' | 2010 (Completed)

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Writer	Sarah Vanagt
Director	Sarah Vanagt
Producer	Sarah Vanagt

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Inspired by Carlo Ginzburg, one of the initiators of 'microhistory', a documentary about the way in which urban development has impacted on the colourful Boulevard d'Ypres.

synopsis

The Boulevard d'Ypres in Brussels with its large and colourful Mediterranean stores, offers glimpses of the Arabian Nights - but urban development is now driving out these shops. Director Sarah Vanagt turned one of the already empty stores into a film studio and invited her neighbours - a mix of new inhabitants, undocumented immigrants, asylum-seekers and shopkeepers - to come and tell a story; a fairytale. The shop, the street and the storytellers all find themselves at a point zero of history.
Le Boulevard d’Ypres à Bruxelles, avec ses grands magasins méditerranéens colorés, offre un aperçu des nuits arabes. Aujourd’hui, le développement urbain chasse ces magasins. Vanagt transforma l’un de ces magasins déjà vides en un studio de films et invita ses voisins- un mélange de nouveaux habitants, d’immigrants illégaux, de demandeurs d’asile et de patrons de petits magasins- à venir et raconter une histoire, un conte de fée. Son approche s’inspire de Carlo Ginzburg, l’un des instigateurs de la « microhistoire ». Cette branche de l’histoire tente de découvrir les relations de pouvoir en se focalisant sur de détails, et sur l’univers mental créé par des hommes et des femmes dans la rue. Avant que le magasin vide ne se transforme en centre de fitness ou en galerie d’art, l’ancien magasin fonctionne comme un lieu de mémoire. Le magasin, la rue, et ceux qui racontent les histoires se trouvent tous au point zéro de l’histoire.

Credits

Writer
Sarah Vanagt
Director
Sarah Vanagt
Producer
Sarah Vanagt
Editing
Effi Weiss
Photography
Katrien Vermeire

Format

Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Doc, Filmlab
Production share
Majoritair
Belgium
Genre
Middellang
Year of production

2010
Production status
Completed
Original title
Ieperlaan
Original language
French, English, Dutch

Technical specs

Running time
65'
Aspect ratio
16:9
Sound format
Stereo (2.0)
Available formats
Blu-Ray
Colour
Colour

Contact & sales

Contact

Balthasar

Ieperlaan 62
1000 Brussel
België

www.balthasar.be

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Sales

CVB

Poststraat 101
1030 Brussel
België

www.cvb-videp.be

Festivals & awards

Festivals

2010: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (BE) / Campo Gent (BE) / Cinema Arsenal (DEU) / Shedhalle Zurich (CHE)

Awards

No award information available.

Partners

Supported by

Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), VGC, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, argos

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Ieperlaan

synopsis

Credits

Writer

Director

Producer

Editing

Photography

Format

Creation details

Type

Category

Production share

Genre

Year of production

Production status

Original title

Original language

Technical specs

Running time

Aspect ratio

Sound format

Available formats

Colour