(down in the street.)
"(...)
When we designed the posters for NOT RECONCILED and we brought them to the person in charge at the theater where the film was released she told us: "Ach! Das ist nicht unser Geschmack" (It doesn't suit our taste). We said: "Very well, we'll pay for them ourselves" and at the time we were completely broke and we had to find a thousand marks. Of course you could say it's still a privilege: a working stiff certainly can't do that. But strangely enough, when you listen to the longshoremen in Saint-Nazaire, at the time of the great strikes, what they talked about most wasn't money or the differences among them, what they talked about was freedom, being able not to go to work if they want to, being able to change location, "just being able to change wharves whenever we feel like it!" This was the longshoreman status they were fighting for. It's quite extraordinary that they should be the ones talking about freedom...(...)"
In 1993, I filmed "Toujours plus". The indispensable complement was missing, "Toujours moins ", my fortieth film. It evokes in 13 minutes the development and expansion, from 1968 to 2010, of the devices based on computers, automats, interactive terminals and others that can be found in all areas. The aim of our current system appears to be to employ a single individual in each sector of activity. We are not there yet, but we're getting there... A schizophrenic world, since, at the same time, businesses are having to pay the price of these suppressions in an indirect way. We can't leave millions of human beings jobless. An observation that is both bitter and funny: the methods of this perpetual reduction are surprising and comical...
