Raphaël Girardot

In a slaughterhouse—a symbol of a working world that hides its laborers and the “dirty work”—men and women oscillate between pride in their craftsmanship and exhaustion from the labor. They speak of the physical strain, the dangers, and the precariousness of their jobs. They are cutters, slaughterers, skinning workers, stampers, and blooders…

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In a humanitarian camp opened in Paris, refugees are in transit. In this "first reception" center, they are resting from the street where they were stranded when they arrived in France. A few days of humanity, that we spend with them. But already, they have to face the Prefecture and hear the cold administrative sentence. We are always with them.

Vincent Gaullier and Raphaël Girardot weave together threads of reflection in tribute to the pioneering political ecologist Bruno Latour, who passed away in 2022, in a stimulating documentary essay.

Alain Crezé saw his entire herd go to slaughter because of a single case of mad cow. He wants to leave the farming profession. It is less a whim than a fed up: "before we fed people, today we enrich the food industry". He is 45 years old. Convert but to do what? The questions of work, of "know-how", of the desire to exercise a trade rather than occupying a job, of lifelong training, of acceptance of the rules of the system then arise.

In a slaughterhouse—a symbol of a working world that hides its laborers and the “dirty work”—men and women oscillate between pride in their craftsmanship and exhaustion from the labor. They speak of the physical strain, the dangers, and the precariousness of their jobs. They are cutters, slaughterers, skinning workers, stampers, and blooders…

No synopsis available yet.

In a humanitarian camp opened in Paris, refugees are in transit. In this "first reception" center, they are resting from the street where they were stranded when they arrived in France. A few days of humanity, that we spend with them. But already, they have to face the Prefecture and hear the cold administrative sentence. We are always with them.

Vincent Gaullier and Raphaël Girardot weave together threads of reflection in tribute to the pioneering political ecologist Bruno Latour, who passed away in 2022, in a stimulating documentary essay.

Alain Crezé saw his entire herd go to slaughter because of a single case of mad cow. He wants to leave the farming profession. It is less a whim than a fed up: "before we fed people, today we enrich the food industry". He is 45 years old. Convert but to do what? The questions of work, of "know-how", of the desire to exercise a trade rather than occupying a job, of lifelong training, of acceptance of the rules of the system then arise.