Camp Ground
I never knew Albert Balay, my paternal grandfather. Nor did my father. Gendarme, Resistance fighter, deportation survivor, a mix of certainties and unknowns. We go in search of him as a family. I neve…
Camp Ground
I never knew Albert Balay, my paternal grandfather. Nor did my father. Gendarme, Resistance fighter, deportation survivor, a mix of certainties and unknowns. We go in search of him as a family. I never knew my paternal grandfather. Nor did my father. I never had the full story of Albert's disappearance, only fragments of stories and anecdotes that eventually settled on me: gendarme in the Resistance, tortured, deported, died in deportation... certainties and unknowns intertwined. I made this film to put together the fragments of the story, reconstruct the puzzle and get as close as possible to the truth. Passing on a story doesn't just mean giving a detailed account of the facts, or showing photographs with incomplete captions. Transmission requires something more substantial and accomplished. It's a journey we need to embark on together. —Stéphan Balay
Camp Ground
Horror
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I never knew Albert Balay, my paternal grandfather. Nor did my father. Gendarme, Resistance fighter, deportation survivor, a mix of certainties and unknowns.
We go in search of him as a family. I never knew my paternal grandfather. Nor did my father.
I never had the full story of Albert's disappearance, only fragments of stories and anecdotes that eventually settled on me: gendarme in the Resistance, tortured, deported, died in deportation... certainties and unknowns intertwined. I made this film to put together the fragments of the story, reconstruct the puzzle and get as close as possible to the truth.
Passing on a story doesn't just mean giving a detailed account of the facts, or showing photographs with incomplete captions. Transmission requires something more substantial and accomplished. It's a journey we need to embark on together.
—Stéphan Balay.