Sophie Bruneau
Born in Belgium in 1967, Sophie Bruneau is a screenwriter, producer, director, and teacher. She trained as an anthropologist. Since 1993, she has made some fifteen documentary films - including Dreaming Under Capitalism (2017) and Devil's Rope (2015) - as well as a dozen sound creations on the themes of work, the anthropology of nature, and capitalism. She teaches documentary filmmaking at INSAS in Brussels and co-founded AlterEgo Films, an independent production company.
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Dreaming Under Capitalism
Twelve people recount and then interpret their memories of a dream about work. These mistreated souls describe their subjective suffering at work in a poetic and political way. Bit by bit, the dreamers and their dreams portray a world dominated by neoliberal capitalism.
Devil's Rope
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This is the story of a universal and familiar tool: barbed wire. It goes back to the first settlers, to the spirit of conquest, and is anchored in the space-time of the American West. It's the story of a small agricultural tool that turns into a political story and gets carried away by the train of capitalism. It's the story of the evolution of surveillance and control techniques; the inversion...
Dreaming Under Capitalism
Twelve people recount and then interpret their memories of a dream about work. These mistreated souls describe their subjective suffering at work in a poetic and political way. Bit by bit, the dreamers and their dreams portray a world dominated by neoliberal capitalism.
Devil's Rope
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This is the story of a universal and familiar tool: barbed wire. It goes back to the first settlers, to the spirit of conquest, and is anchored in the space-time of the American West. It's the story of a small agricultural tool that turns into a political story and gets carried away by the train of capitalism. It's the story of the evolution of surveillance and control techniques; the inversion...
