American Capitalism, A Self-Portrait

In 1914, an engineer sent away to reorganize a factory exchanges letters with his wife. As he tells her about his experiments in taylorism, she picks up bits and pieces of this method and applies it to her daily tasks at home. While he gets disappointed by the Taylor system, she becomes a true domestic engineer. Mingling images of American institutional movies to extracts of handbooks on management from the 1900s and 1910s The Human Factor aims at showing the genesis of Taylorism and its main effects upon industrial societies. It is also a love story.

Humans have been our parents, our shepherds, and finally our obsolete children. Who are we?

Made from the official photos and declarations of the G7 summits. 40 years of celebrating economic growth.

Regularly, for twenty-five years, adolescents burst into their schools and kill, each time causing media hurricanes. Most of these killers use YouTube and social networks to explain their actions, their anger, their suffering. Once their murders are done, they continue to live online, hated by some YouTubers and celebrated by others.