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The origins of the film go back to september 2002, when we got a one year residency at the Centre for Popular Culture in Saint-Nazaire.
Throughout this year, we helped employees making films about their company for their works councils, held talks at Aristide Briand college, one one side, and, on the other, started to write our own film, linked to the city of Saint-Nazaire and its surrondings. The films we helped employees to make are now finished. In the first one, shot by former workers at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, we get accounts of former workers who suffered asbestos contamination. The second one is a portrait of a young woman with a government-sponsored job, who created her own job, as a socio-beautician. The film was made by a team of young people who also have government-sponsored jobs.
For a year, we were able to immerse ourselves in Saint-Nazaire, its specificities, and particularly in the city's working class world. The people we met, together with our steady presence there, have allowed us to realize the extent of the changes in working management at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, relying widely on temporary work and subcontracting.
In this film, we want to continue, trying to go deeper and further, what we undertook in our former projects, all of which, in different ways, have addressed issues about the working world : Stopping work, the utopian view of a better world, in our film about the railway workers' strike of nov-dec. 1995. The job hunt of young outsiders in search of a different life(style). Work as a source of anger, hope and creation, when making a portrait of René Vautier, a filmmaker who filmed, or filmed for, the working class. |
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