Twenty minutes that'll wreck your heart in the Sahara sun.
A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges Derocles’s company Les Studios Africa, for whom he would shortly make his breakthrough feature The Olive Trees of Justice.
Cinematography
Sahara light so tangible you taste the dust.
Direction
Blue lets children be mysteries, not symbols.
Director
James Blue
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Blue shot this while technically employed to make industrial films for a French company—he smuggled art into propaganda.
Made during Algeria's brutal war of independence, yet barely registers the conflict directly—instead, it watches children inherit its silence.
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