Christian Zarifian

Table Rase

September 1944. the Normandy landings took place three months earlier. Paris is liberated, the allied troops are in Belgium. It was then, on September 5 precisely, that the deadliest bombardment of the war in France took place on the harbor. The result is up to the means implemented by the English air force: 3000 dead, the heart of the city razed, annihilated, without any military reason. Table Rase describes this forgotten murder that continues to haunt the city. Military archives, news of the time, intervention of English pilots, hypothesis of a French colonel, views of the port and the city before the war, and especially testimonies of survivors, the film goes around what remains of the event.

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A film by Christian Zarifian.

On voit bien qu'c'est pas toi

Prepared and shot with a group of young workers, schoolchildren, the unemployed, etc., in a neighborhood of Le Havre, On voit bien qu'c'est pas toi inaugurates a series of "collective" films, in a neighborhood of Le Havre, On voit bien qu'c'est pas toi inaugurates a series of "collective" films, inspired by the impetus of 1968, which helped to make our filmmaking activity (somewhat) better known. The young people chose the documentary form to show their lives as they wanted them to be seen, that is, on a daily basis, in their premises, at work, on the town, with their families, on wild camping trips... In this way, they drew up a precise and detailed self-portrait of a milieu hitherto almost totally absent from the screens.