The Green Border
Gilles Weinzaepflen
2019 - 74 min - Video Full HD - Couleur - France

A border marked by 4056 boundary stones on French soil, delimiting the frontier of the lost provinces of Alsace-Lorraine that France yielded to Germany in 1870 and won back in 1918.
Today, they form a forgotten scar, a no man’s land of memory, which I explore. We follow the boundaries on the ridge of the Vosges then the Lorraine basin, meeting landscapes and inhabitants. Building an itinerary of thought, to provide visibility and status to this frontier, and make a monument of it.

Histoire | Mémoire | Patrimoine | Alsace


Author-Director : Gilles Weinzaepflen
Photography : Tristan Bordmann
Sound : François Waledisch, Jean-Marc Schick
Editing : Gilles Weinzaepflen
Delegate Producer : Sancho et Compagnie
Contribution : CNC. Aide au développement, Procirep, Angoa-Agicoa, Région Grand Est

Distribution


Distributor : Sancho et Compagnie