Association of Celtic Students

This blog post is based on the information provided by the Brittany Movie Archive , my personal knowledge, and the interview given a few months ago by Marie Carrez to the Cinémathèque du documentaire, on her suggestion. Said interview is available here , in French. I would like to thank Marie Carrez once again for her help and diligence in organising the screening for the conference. Still from “ Purée géante à Brest ” [litt. Giant mashed potatoes in Brest], amateur movie from Daniel Jacolot, 1986 freely available here . Do you recognize Brest’s main square? For those of you who came to our last conference, you may have attended the screening of a documentary titled “ Americans in Brest in 1917 ”. Made by the Brittany Movie Archive, it presents archives shot by the Sammies themselves stationed in Brest during the First World War, sources that were not largely available in France before. While it may seem a bit far from our usual fields of work in Celtic studies, it’s a an important par...