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J'ai Huit Ans (1962)
Directed by Yann Le Masson, Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff
· 9m
With my wife, Olga Poliakoff, we made "I'm Eight Years Old" based on an idea by René Vautier. Using drawings by Algerian children who were refugees in Tunisia, the film immerses the viewer in the traumatized world of these children, horrifically linking the word "France" with words like "kill," "burn," and "torture." The live-action footage was shot in Tunisia by René Vautier and myself. A second set of drawings was compiled, and the children's testimonies were recorded by Olga at the Algerian-Tunisian border. The entire film was edited in collaboration with Jacqueline Meppiel. The first screening took place in Paris on February 10, 1962, without any precautions or authorization, for about fifty people. Sponsored by the Maurice Audin Committee, the film then circulated clandestinely throughout France in dozens of copies and was seen by tens of thousands of people while the OAS was carrying out bombings in Paris and Algiers – Yann Le Masson
Crew
- Director
- Yann Le Masson, Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff
- Writer
- Frantz Fanon, René Vautier
- Editor
- Jacqueline Meppiel, Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff
Details
- Release date
- 1962-02-10
- Runtime
- 9m
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- Algeria, France
- Production
- Le Comité Maurice Audin