Luc Joulé

Cheminots

Luc Joulé, Sébastien Jousse

Luc Joulé

Covering different rail sites in South-East France (Côte d’Azur), the film presents the people who work daily to "run the railway". Through their words, their work, questioning also history and cinema, a truth is revealed : trains create links, trains "make society". But today this historical movement of building a network and a community is being questioned. Managerial culture is taking over from railway culture. The change is profound among rail workers. At the time when the world of work tends to hide from outside eyes, where words and images are henceforth "under the control" of company management, the rail workers question, express their doubts and hopes.

C'est quoi ce travail ?

Luc Joulé, Sébastien Jousse

They are at work. The employees of a factory, which produces 800,000 car parts a day, and composer Nicolas Frize, who invents his musical creation alongside the workers inside the workshop. Each in their own way talks about their work. And each, in their own way, also asks : just what is this work ?