Grands travaux
Grands travaux
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At a vocational school in Brussels, a couple of boys follow a training to become an electrician. The film documents and stages the lessons at school and their conversations about the future, love and work.

Grands travaux
Language
Taal
Langue
Dutch, French, Pular
Subtitles
Ondertitels
Sous-titres
Dutch, English, French
Available
Beschikbaar
Disponible
Worldwide
Duration
Duur
Durée
101'
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
1.78

Grands travaux is set in the Institute Anneessens-Funck, a Dutch-speaking vocational school in the centre of Brussels where young students have come to learn a trade. The film both documents and stages that which gives shape to their lives: the practical assignments and classes at school, football, the oscillation of their love lives, as well as the ongoing search for housing and employment. Depicting daily life within the school walls, Grands travaux also aims to sketch an image of Brussels today, placing its youngsters at the very centre. 

Gerard-Jan Claes: Grands travaux might be considered a tentative cartography of the vocational school Anneessens-Funck. We mapped the various spaces of a place where the fragments of a disintegrated city converge. Just like with Because We Are Visual and Rain, constructing Grands travaux was closely related to a tension between inside and outside, between private and public space, between darkness and light... Essentially, Grands travaux is about how we might create new spaces in film. It’s a flowing geography, a movement through the polymorphous spaces inhabited by the boys.

Bjorn Gabriels in conversation with Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes

Grands Travaux Poster
Language
Taal
Langue
Dutch, French, Pular
Subtitles
Ondertitels
Sous-titres
Dutch, English, French
Available
Beschikbaar
Disponible
Worldwide
Duration
Duur
Durée
101'
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
1.78
A Film by
Een film van
Un film de
With
Met
Avec
Mohamud Mohamed Abdi, Ahmadou Oury Barry, Mamadou Diallo, Achmed Xussein
Image
Beeld
Image
Olivia Rochette
Sound
Geluid
Son
Gerard-Jan Claes
Producer
Producent
Producteur
Bart Van Langendonck
Line Producer
Uitvoerend Producent
Producteur Exécutif
Tatjana Kozar
Editing
Montage
Montage
Dieter Diependaele
Sound Editing
Klankmontage
Montage Son
Ingrid Simon, Sabrine Calmels
Sound Mix
Klankmix
Mixage son
Thomas Gauder
Colour Correction
Kleurcorrectie
Etalonnage
Raphaëlle Dufosset
Production
Productie
Production
Savage Film
Co-production
Coproductie
Coproduction
Beursschouwburg, Zéro de conduite
With the Support of
Met de steun van
Avec le soutien de
Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF), Centre du Cinéma de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC), De Belgische Tax Shelter voor filmfinanciering, Vocatio
In association with
In samenwerking met
En association avec
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama, Scio Productions, Canvas