Oriane Brun-Moschetti – Salut et fraternité : les images selon René Vautier AKA Images According to René Vautier (2015)
“Each of René Vautier’s films is a pamphlet, a shield for the oppressed and the victims of history, a little war machine in the service of justice. And like weapons in a resistance movement, they are used, exchanged, lent, discarded, destroyed, lost or hidden away and sometimes long forgotten in their cache. In that respect, each of René’s films is an individual case, an episode in what is probably the most noble and romantic story in the history of cinema. Scarred as these films may be, their beauty is genuine, not only in the plastic and stylistic senses, but also in the sense of a cinema raised to the fullness of its necessity and powers. His cinema mobilizes a precise, wide-ranging conception of the rights and duties of images: documenting, telling the truth, doing justice, dialoguing with other images and information, contradicting, counter-attacking, convincing.
Images are arguments in an endless visual debate whose only horizon is a more just
state of the world.
Oriane Brun-Moschetti’s essay, structured by the initiatives and principles applied by René Vautier, sheds light on the filmmaker’s original journey. By its very precision and singularity, the film’s general scope will capture the attention of everyone interested in the practices, forms, issues and questions raised by images.” /// Nicole Brenez
Salut et Fraternité received its first impetus from Nicole Brenez, Annick Lemonnier and Philippe Grandrieux as part of a collection of documentary portraits of politically committed filmmakers. Oriane Brun-Moschetti directed the film; Corinne Thevenon-Grandrieux and Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier successively collaborated editing to produce a 58-mn version of the film.
http://nitroflare.com/view/A5D59645EEECCEA/Salut_et_Fraternite.mkv
Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Italian
