Summary of a Summer

Images from a text by P. J. Hélias.

How do souls travel to the afterlife ? What should the ferryman do ? Morgane, the water fairy, knows this (according to Per Jakez Hélias).

Images on a text by Per Jakez Helias

A breton movie about dreams.

Tribute to Tristan Corbière. Images of the sea, stars, muses, the poetic universe of Tristan Corbière. Evocation of the Conlie camp, where thousands of Breton volunteers were taken during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871, in order to do their classes there. For lack of means, or fear of a "Chouan peril", these soldiers never received either the equipment or the training necessary for combat. Some of them were however sent to fight, but almost disarmed.

Imagine a land without trees: erosion, desolation, desert... Imagine... Technocrats of "development" and pseudo-farmers, do you happen to have a little imagination ?

The famous sunken city should reappear, but we must wait for the day when all warfare will have ceased for a hundred years.

A brief history of the various harvesting techniques since wheat has existed.

At the edge of the Brocéliande forest is a site where a castle was built, that of Boutavant (Boutavam). We interrogated the ruins and discovered an original defense system.

The ruins of Oradour: there were 672 victims, burned and methodically massacred by the Nazis. In the face of resurgent fascism, it is forbidden to forget.

Based on a poem by Leconte de Lisle.

The forest is burning. By man's fault. "Accused, look at your harvest of ashes" ; this simple sentence sums up the film.

Anthropological tourism in New Guinea. Ten days of immersion in Irian Jaya.

In 1976 there were only a few thousand tons of oil on the coast. In 1978, 230,000 ; It was too late to shed tears.

A girl leaves a dying present to be reborn.

Short documentary about La Hunaudaye's castle.