Steenweg | The paved road

BOUND FOR DESTINY | DOCU-SERIE | 5 EPISODES | 52 min.

 

On the road to your job, in transit to the supermarket, en route with your kids to the sports club … a network of paved roads transports each and every one of us, day by day to our destination. Traffic jams, radio on, billboards screaming for attention while universal prefab buildings slide by left and right. The familiar monotone sound of tires on concrete and asphalt provoke a mental state of auto-pilot …but on the sidelines…

 

In the eclectic architectural landscape of Flanders subcultures emerge from their safe heavens to appeal on the reciprocating mass. “The Paved Road* takes a halt at these intriguing phenomena that are hosted by a variety of transit people.

 

‘Steenweg*’ is an episodic highlight of profoundly moving stories told by distinct characters about their struggle for destiny between the local and global world.

 

EXTREME   |   Directed by Fien Troch

Online dating sites give a new boost to the houses of ‘Daddy’s Hobby’. Power to the ‘Kaberdouche’ women or is it and will it stay white slavery after all?

 

CORNERED IN MOLENBEEK    |   Directed by Sahim Omar Kalifa

 

LUXE LIMBURGSE SUNSHINE HAND CAR WASH  |  Directed by Bart Maes

Alongside one of the approach roads to the city center of Hasselt, two railway bridges shelter a barrack with a dim history.

 

PASSE-PARTOUT     |   Directed by Tim De Keersmaecker

Local paper box-to-box distribution by African boys who warm themselves in their shabby van that perspires the mother continent and stories of alienation.

 

BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND MY DEEP BLUE SKIN     |   Directed by Eva Küpper

They denounce conformism yet they operate under a tight codex of honour; The Blue Angels Motorcycle Club.