Short film
The Human Factor
2012 · 28 min
A quiet, essayistic collage of old manuals and archival footage that asks you to think about efficiency and intimacy at once.
- Directed by
- Thibault Le Texier
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Aurélien Recoing, Cécile Garcia-Fogel
- Overview
- 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.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Work, technology, love, identity
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Thibault Le Texier
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Aurélien Recoing, Cécile Garcia-Fogel
