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A philosophical film work based on the French philosopher Simone Weil’s thoughts, beautifully translated into grainy 16mm footage from early modernism’s absolute center, Paris, and divided into chapters like stations on a night-time ride with the metro. In 1934, Weil decided to experience life among the workers of a Renault factory. Her notes were turned into the book ’The Workers’ Condition’, which lucidly and constructively criticised not just the workers’ conditions, but also the more far-reaching consequences of industrialisation and 1930s capitalism.
