Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress - L’Homme a mangé la terre

Jean-Robert Viallet is a filmmaker and journalist. He received the Albert Londres prize in 2010 for his trilogy La Mise à Mort du Travail, an immersion into the world of globalized corporations. His work focuses on the grey areas that lie within instances of power, on the fractures within modern society and environmental issues. Indeed, he turned his interest for the dangerous ties that exist between arm sellers and French political parties into a six-episode documentary series. The paper Le Monde deemed it to be: “As gripping, sharp and humanely powerful as the best fictional series, Manipulation, une histoire francaise, must be re-watched without interruption, the six episodes all in one go, to best enjoy the exhilarating and terrifying dramaturgy.” Viallet recently finished writing L’Homme a mange la terre, an archival saga that recounts the history of progress. His latest film, Des Hommes, was selected for the ACID-CANNES 2019 festival and premiered in theatres in February 2020.