Kategorie: Banlieue

  • Yesterday’s Future.

    Yesterday’s Future.

    The film ‘Gagarin’ by Fanny Liatards and Jérémy Trouilh tells the story of the last days of a French social housing estate. One resident refuses to give up, which is why he dreams himself into his own utopia

  • C’est nous le Grand Paris.

    C’est nous le Grand Paris.

    La banlieue c’est des pâquerettes sur un tas de fumier // Les voix du ghetto sont auto-tunées // Le pied au plancher dans tous les tunnels // Micro neuf millimètres, on va te parfumer // Mon freestyle c’est le gang des Bloods // On te fait chier toute la night comme les gars de Nuit…

  • Images du Cornillon.

    Images du Cornillon.

    Marc Pataut is a french artist and photographer. One of his well-known photographic projects is Images du Cornillon sur le terrain, which was exhibited at documenta X in 1997. Pataut documented the transformation of the 25-hectare Cornillon gasworks industrial wasteland near Saint Denis, north of Paris, over an extended period of time. Announced in 1993,…

  • Nanterre 2023.

    Nanterre 2023.

    France football captain Kylian Mbappé and Les Bleus urged for an end to violence and called for „dialogue and reconstruction“ on Friday, June 30, as France was hit by a fourth night of protests after the fatal police shooting of a teenager earlier this week. (Le Monde July 1, 2023)

  • Georges Lapassade.

    Georges Lapassade.

    When hip-hop joined the university and the university became a hip-hop laboratory. The bulletin provides an overview of all the practices related to the hip-hop mouvement including drawings and essay by the legendary Georges Lapassade, among many others. via zarbibooks »»

  • Friches urbaines.

    Friches urbaines.

    […] Audrey Muratet explores and studies the composition and dynamics of biodiversity in cities. She extends her work as an ecologist and botanist by bringing together in her research the approaches of geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, managers, and artists. Myr Muratet is a Paris-based photographer. The comings and goings in the places that he observes multiply…

  • Alors on danse.

    Alors on danse.

    Breaking, Bboying – Krump, Electro Dance, House? Litefeet, Waacking? Punking, Voguing, Locking? Tutting, Shuffling? Videos taken during BOMA MUTU BATTLE DE DANSE at Le 6b, Saint Denis, April 9, 2023 A brief overview of some of the dance styles you mentioned put together by AI Chat GPT: Breaking/Bboying: Breaking originated in the Bronx in the…

  • Move: 84 KM en banlieue.

    Move: 84 KM en banlieue.

    Other than the official marathon route our personal ultra-marathon took us through the banlieue not along the ‚landmark sites‘ of Paris. These banlieue which are currently experiencing big transformations and where some major Olympic arenas and stadiums are build. These banlieue where the Hip Hop Culture in France started which is now an olympic discipline…

  • Nouveau Western.

    Nouveau Western.

    […] Le western moderne est installé dans le secteur // Quand la ville dort, les trains ne sifflent pas. […] Mais Harry à Paris n’a pas eu de chance // On le stoppe sur le périph‘ avec sa diligence // Parfois la vie ressemble à une balle perdue // Dans le système moderne se noie…

  • Périphérique compressed.

    Périphérique compressed.

    When you are in the Banlieue of Paris, and there is a massive strike. What to do?Video by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber. March 25, 2023. 12:05 pm – 12:45 pm

  • Du sale.

    Du sale.

    The director Marion Siéfert created in collaboration with the dancer Janice Bieleu and the rapper Laëtitia Kerfa a. k. a. Original Laeti the theatrical work DU SALE ! (Real Shit!) and provides a stage for their complex biographies. The concentrated staging tells the story of harsh realities and gentle dreams, of beauty, hope and a…

  • The birth of hip-hop.

    The birth of hip-hop.

    It was 11 August 1973 and Cindy Campbell was throwing a back to school party. She had asked her brother to DJ the event, which would be held in the recreation room of their building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. Cindy planned to charge admission at the door — a quarter for girls,…

  • Die große Flatter

    Die große Flatter

    This mini-series by Marianne Lüdcke (1979) tells the story of the friendship between two teenagers, Joachim, called Schocker, and Richy, who live with their families in a poor settlement on the outskirts of West Berlin. Problems with parents and friends, alcoholism and unemployment determine their everyday lives. They dream of one day being able to…

  • Posse 501.

    Posse 501.

    The Posse 501 was a French hip-hop collective from Villeneuve-Saint-Georges / Val-de-Marne. Over the years, it brought together rappers such as Soon E MC, Strike, Bambi Cruz and Ménélik, but also DJs and composers such as DJ Seeq and Jimmy Jay, as well as the rapper and singer Melaaz, and several dancers and graffiti artists.…

  • In the Banlieues.

    In the Banlieues.

    Regardless of what they are called—suburbs, outskirts, banlieues—this exhibition highlights the symbolic reversal of the center and the periphery through an exploration of how Oakland, California, and Saint-Denis, near Paris, are asserting their influence and inventing solutions to the challenges of inequity and accelerated urban development that metropolises are facing through artistic movements, social struggles,…

  • Banlieue PLUS.

    Banlieue PLUS.

    »The Banlieues have come to symbolise the urban and societal failures of modern France struggling to come to terms with how it wants itself to look and what it wants itself to say.« Interesting research »» by Richard Baker from the School of Journalism in Manchester about the banlieue, politics, culture, history, football… including maps,…