La Zad: Parts 1 & 2
- ArtBomb
- Aug 6
- 1 min read
(2017) Denning & Kyprianou | 13m & 14m
ArtBomb'25 | Sunday 17 August | 12pm @ Unitarian Church
Two rarely seen historic films about La Zad in Brittany, France. For decades there had been a local campaign of resistance against the construction of a second airport near the city of Nantes. This resistance culminated in the establishment of a self-organised autonomous zone, known as the ZAD: Zone à Défendre (Zone to Defend).
Over 40,000 people took part in creative acts of disobedience to defend this zone, a non-hierarchical community with its own bakeries, brewery, newspaper and radio station. The first part charts the history of La Zad, the second presents day-to-day life in the zone.
Directed by Roland Denning & Kypros Kyprianou for Dartmouth Films/teleSUR
