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2019 has been a very complicated year for this movement, with Macron’s government abandoning a 40-year-old airport project, followed by the arrival of 2500 gendarmes who came to evict the inhabitants. Notre-Dame-des-Landes has become a meeting place for many protest movements from around the world. Questioning many of the rules of our society, whether they concern housing, economy, decision-making or hierarchical relationships, the ZAD’s residents explore the possibility of a different way of life. Occupying nearly 2000 hectares of forest, this movement has brought together a multitude of different people who have decided to seek an alternative way to live. Located about 30 km from the French city of Nantes, the ZAD (Zone to Defend) de Notre-Dame-des-Landes is one of the largest autonomous spaces in Europe. Its narration is condensed by the subjective and pure voices of the inhabitants of Ogata-mura. Moving along different areas of farming, housing, and public infrastructure – all places of policymaking – the camera travels calmly and creates an almost hypnotic effect. The film narration mimics the topography of the village that was planned from scratch on the drawing board. This resulted in a severe confrontation between villagers and the government that separated the village into two conflicting fractions over the years.
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Its scaling led to conflicts with the regulations and demands set by Japanese national agriculture policy. Only the roofs had different colours – yellow, red, blue – pointing towards the different waves of settlement. Within the dichotomy of plan versus reality, the film portrays Ogata-mura (Big Lagoon Village) that was once planned within a huge reclamation project as a “model farming village” to grant food security by the government – and would later become the place of what some would call a “secret revolution of farmers”.Īt its very beginning, each of the settlers from all over Japan got exactly 10 ha of land and moved into one of the nearly identical houses.