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The origins of the film go back to september 2002, when the Centre de culture populaire de Saint-Nazaire (Centre for popular culture) granted us a one year residency. We were there long enough to decide what film we wanted to make : "A modern World" (Un monde moderne), or how work has been reorganized at les Chantiers de l'Atlantique these last few years, resulting in more and more job insecurity for the workers - this new organisation being, to our eyes, typical of of the changes occurring in the labour world.
We couldn't enter the shipyards to film people at work : we never got the authorization to film inside the shipyards.
But being unable to film work itself didn't prevent work from being present in the film. We shot from the shipyard gates, close to the railings, and filmed work from there, with this "distance". In fact, cinema has very rarely considered work as a subject. Let us think only of the Lumière brothers : they were filming from the gates, as well (cf. "La Sortie des usines Lumière"). When cameras were able to film working places from inside, it was very often in specific conditions, where work had actually stopped - strike, occupation of the workplace, closure, plant relocation... As if, and it's still the case today, showing work was a taboo question. We thus took the option to stage that "ban", and set up the camera in the main locations just outside the shipyards. It's the words of the workers that open the door to the labour world. |
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