René Vautier I The Sherpa-lined hoodie

A drawing by artist Jay One

Main material: 85% organic ring-spun and combed cotton, 15% recycled polyester
Weight: 300 G/M²

Lining: Sherpa, 100% recycled polyester
Weight: 350 g/m²

THE FIGHT FILMMAKER

René Vautier (1928-2015) - France

A Breton director and filmmaker born in 1928 to a worker father and a teacher mother, René Vautier joined the Resistance at the age of fifteen and received several decorations for his commitment. Graduating in 1948 from the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (IDHEC), he left for the Ivory Coast to complete a commission from the French League of Education, which wanted to show French students "how villagers in French West Africa live."

Upon his arrival in Abidjan, Vautier decided to film, handheld, the crimes of French colonialism and the plundering of resources. His first French anti-colonialist film, Afrique 50, earned him a prison sentence and was censored for over forty years in France. A communist activist, involved in the resistance in Algeria where he produced several documentaries, including Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès, and then a pioneer of committed, popular, and independent cinema, René Vautier remained a militant filmmaker until his death in 2015.

A creation by the artist Jay One