
Robert Kernez
Directing
Biography
Breton director and writer, more specifically dedicated to documentaries on Breton traditions. He produced most of his work in the 1970s and 1980s.
Known For

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

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.
Abrasions

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 tide was black

A breton movie about dreams.
Marteze

A brief history of the various harvesting techniques since wheat has existed.
Yesterday's Harvest

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...
Summary of a Summer

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

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..."
Once upon a time in Saint Malo street

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.
Before gulping

Images from a text by P. J. Hélias.
The island of the marine dead

Images on a text by Per Jakez Helias
The sunset paradises

The cider-making process : an art of knowing how to poetize reality.
A glass of cider or nothing

The sinking of the oil tanker "Olympic Bravery". The problem of regulation is posed.
There was oil in Ouessant island

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

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

Short documentary about La Hunaudaye's castle.
La Hunaudaye

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.
Britain is not for sale

Based on a poem by Leconte de Lisle.
Komor's Judgment

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.
Born for pain
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...