Robert Kernez

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

Images from a text by P. J. Hélias.

Images on a text by Per Jakez Helias

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.

A breton movie about dreams.

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

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

Images from a text by P. J. Hélias.

Images on a text by Per Jakez Helias

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.

A breton movie about dreams.

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

Based on a poem by Leconte de Lisle.

A girl leaves a dying present to be reborn.

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.

A being from a distant elsewhere arrives in the world of men to learn. But the man does not like to have his actions and gestures questioned...

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

The construction of the Guerlédan dam lasted seven years (from 1923 to 1930). Placed on the waters of Blavet, it is 45 meters high and retains a volume of 55 million m3 of water over an area of ​​400 hectares, thus forming the lake of Guerlédan, the largest of the Breton lakes. Its impoundment engulfed more than 12 km of the Haut Blavet valley. During the emptying of the lake, one can discover, like the legendary town of Ys in Cornouaille, a few walls of houses (in particular lock keepers) engulfed in the old valley as well as its towpath, its gardens, its locks and its weirs. The opening of the site took place in June 1923 and the official commissioning of the hydroelectric plant in January 1931.

Back to the pollution caused by oil tankers. After the Torrey Canyon in 1967, the Olympic Bravery in 1976, the Böhlen in 1976, the Amoco Cadiz in 1978, the Gino in 1979, it was the Tanio which ran aground in 1980 off the coast of Brittany, eight dead and spilling 15,000 tonnes of oil. The director makes the sad observation of the impotence of the public authorities in the face of the situation and expresses his desolation and his anger.

Traditional cider making in the small breton town of Saint-Gonlay in 1976. The traditional song called "Son ar sistr" whose words in Breton were written in 1929 by two Morbihan teenagers Jean Bernard and Jean-Marie Prima, is used as a leitmotiv.

A tormented (but forbidden) history, a culture reduced to provincial folklore, economic difficulties, social conflicts, military and tourist vocations: such is the assessment that we have been able to make of this country. Luckily there were a few of them showing their anger.

The sinking of the oil tanker "Olympic Bravery". The problem of regulation is posed.

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

The cider-making process : an art of knowing how to poetize reality.

Gisèle Jan-Simon, painter who lives in the world of Brocéliande talks about her work. From the magic of Celtic legends, she questions the present world.

How we destroy the site of Lake Trémelin in Iffendic, in the name of tourism of course. The lake becomes the prey of promoters for a "marina"! A nature museum will be built there.

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.

The life of a peasant family in the years 1650-1670 in Brittany. ; This film was made as part of an Educational Action Project at the Collège de Saint-Méen.

The destruction of part of the rue de Saint-Malo district in Rennes as part of the program to reduce unsanitary housing. Extract from the author's text: "... So, good people, the rue de Saint-Malo is dead, at the end of this crazy 20th century..."

Short documentary about La Hunaudaye's castle.

Pardon of Josselin in 1975

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.

The drought of 1976 marked the history of agriculture by surprising in its duration and extent. But if there had been better management and use of water...

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

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

The drama of the East German tanker on the coast of the island of Sein and the bay of Audierne.

Images "inspired" from music by Bernard Benoit

Experimental film in the now submerged valley with Catherine Ferlandin and Corinne Lépine. Lake Guerlédan dry.