Let's talk about workplace violence
As a result of the agreement between CLACSO and CONTAR, the free public platform of the Secretariat of Media of Argentina, on Friday, December 17 at 5:30 p.m. Argentina time (UTC-3), both institutions invite you to a discussion about the documentary “ Retiros (In)voluntarios ” by Sandra Gugliotta, available on the CONTAR website.
Participants: Sandra Wolanski , assistant researcher at CONICET, who researched the struggles of telephone workers in Argentina during the privatization of the 90s, and Damián Pierbattisti , researcher at CONICET (CITRA) and professor of Sociology; the film is inspired by his research on the privatization of ENTel and its successor in France. Hosted by: Fito Mendonca Paz , journalist and contributor to CONTAR.
SYNOPSIS: On July 2, 2008 at 5:30 in the afternoon, a 53-year-old man named Jean-Michel is run over by a train in Saint-Lyé. Nearby, in another town in France, another individual decides to hang himself with a telephone cable at his workplace.
The tragedies continue and the death toll has risen to 50 people.
What initially appears to be a series of unrelated suicides reveals a common thread: they are all former employees of France Telecom.
The effects of this perverse system that forces its workers to resign have as their precedent a similar process 10 years ago in Argentina by the same telephone company.
Psychological harassment, indirect violence, and the fear of dismissal disguised as so-called "voluntary retirements" had terrible consequences for its employees, leading to depression, illness, and, in the worst cases, suicide.
(In)voluntary Retirements proposes to go from the particular to the collective, from the private to the labor, from Europe to South America, to expose in that journey the devastating consequences that the implementation of neoliberal policies leaves on individuals.
A political documentary but also an essay film in which its director develops an investigation that unites the intimacy of her personal history with a conflict of global dimensions about corporations.
Thus, the disappearance of a form of work with which several generations grew up, the harshness of certain human resources policies, and the insignificance of the suffering of individuals in the face of companies appear as issues at the center of the stage.
Sandra Gugliotta : Born in Buenos Aires, she is a director, screenwriter, and producer. Since her first short film, she has been part of the group of filmmakers who formed what came to be known as the New Argentine Cinema. In her work, she explores diverse genres, styles, and formats with a consistently sharp, sensitive, and personal perspective. Her films have been screened at festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno, she was nominated for a Goya Award, and she has received numerous other awards and nominations. With *Retiros (In)voluntarios* (Involuntary Retreats), she returns to the political documentary genre, which she previously explored in *La Toma*. She is currently working on her next projects: the fiction film *Amanda* and the documentary *El proceso* (The Process), a co-production between France and Argentina.
Filmography: Asian Nights (1994) / One Lucky Day (2002) / Points of View (2003) / Possible Lives (2007) / The Take (2013) / Rapture (2014)
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