They tried to burn his films. He filmed them burning.
Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of Breton autonomy, René Vautier was a committed filmmaker, author of an anti-colonialist work in which he denounces the repression, torture and racism. In 1983, René Vautier discovered, by the light of a flashlight, his films cut up and scattered at Fort du Conquet. Police also came to check the damage.
Direction
Vautier weaponizes his own violation.
Editing
Spliced destruction becomes the film itself.
Director
René Vautier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Medvedkine Groups were worker-film collectives named after Soviet director Alexander Medvedkin; Vautier's was Breton-based and fiercely regionalist.
Vautier's 1973 film 'Remparts of Clay' was already banned for its Algerian war testimony; the 1983 destruction was systematic, not accidental.
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