Six minutes of sheep, shears, and socialist subtext. Belgian wool hits different.
Direction
Dekeukeleire's montage weaponizes wool production into radical cinema.
Editing
Sharp juxtapositions between pastoral fluff and factory grit.
Director
Charles Dekeukeleire
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dekeukeleire was a key figure in Belgian avant-garde cinema, influencing later political filmmakers like the Dardenne brothers.
The film's title 'capiage' refers to sheep shearing, but critics argue it metaphorically strips bare capitalist labor relations—those sheep know what's up.
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