Nina de Vroome
Bois-du-Luc consists of two streets that intersect like a cross. The street names refer to the four cardinal directions, surrounded by a ring of saints: Rue Saint-Patrice, Rue Saint-Emmanuel and Rue Sainte-Barbe. If you look from Rue du Nord towards Rue du Midi, you will see a detached stately house in the distance. This was the home of the director of the mine where all the inhabitants of Bois-du-Luc worked. Yes, all of them, because when someone was dismissed, he and his family had to leave the cité.
What remains of the mining culture today? To what extent does the architectural form of the cité influence the way Bois-du-Luc is inhabited? And how can this collective past be activated in the present?
As a filmmaker and writer, Nina de Vroome hopes to answer these questions.
BIO
Nina de Vroome is a filmmaker, lecturer and author. She studied film at KASK / School of Arts Ghent and graduated with Golven (Waves, 2013). Her further filmography includes Een idee van de zee [A Sea Change] (2016), Het geluk van honden [A Dog's Luck] (2018) and Globes (2021). Her films have been screened at international festivals such as Visions du Réel and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She is a writer and editor at Sabzian, an online magazine for film criticism. As a teacher, she is involved in various educational projects. She makes collages and records sounds.
