Country: Netherlands
Year: 1999
Duration: 18'
A lucid and rigorous documentary about prostitution in Dutch cities. The movie camera shoots the secluded and "neat" open areas that become the stage for nocturnal encounters. The statements recorded during the interviews describe the humiliating situation from the prostitutes' point of view.
"For me the filmshows most of all an overwhelming feeling of alienation in today society. It is a theme that is present in all the films I made. De Zone is about the struggle of this society and the authorities with a very complex problem that is universal. The solution they found is very bizzarre and functional at the same time" (Ben van Lieshout).
Biography
film director
Ben van Lieshout
Ben van Lieshout (Helmond, Holland, 1951) followed courses in cinema at the University of Utrecht and attended the directing workshops of Frans Zwarjes at the Vrije Academie of the Hague for two years. A director and screenwriter, at the moment he teaches at Utrecht's art school.
FILMOGRAFIA
Framed (mm, 1981), Het Licht van Cadiz (The Light of Cadiz, 1983), De Wal (The Shore, mm, 1988), Schutting (Fence, cm, 1989), Passagiers (Passengers, 1991), Butterfly (cm, 1995), De Verstekeling (The Stowaway, 1997), De Zone (cm, doc., 1999).
Cast
& Credits
Director and plot: Ben van Lieshout.
Screenplay: Ben van Lieshout, Lidy van Marissing.
Director of photography: Stef Tijdink.
Sound: Henk Rhebergen.
Music: Harry de Wit.
Editor: Jan Ketelaars.
Voci: Sanneke Brienne, Nienke de Wit, Cloè Collette, Moniek Buijzen.
Producer: Ben van Lieshout.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Van Lieshout Filmproductions, Kerkstraat 8, 3431 CR Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, tel. e fax +31-30-6013040.
Screenplay: Ben van Lieshout, Lidy van Marissing.
Director of photography: Stef Tijdink.
Sound: Henk Rhebergen.
Music: Harry de Wit.
Editor: Jan Ketelaars.
Voci: Sanneke Brienne, Nienke de Wit, Cloè Collette, Moniek Buijzen.
Producer: Ben van Lieshout.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Van Lieshout Filmproductions, Kerkstraat 8, 3431 CR Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, tel. e fax +31-30-6013040.