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Deconstructing the Seam: Class, Memory, and Sartorial Agency in Petit Tailleur (2010)

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This paper analyzes the 2010 French short film Petit Tailleur (dir. anonymous), examining its narrative and visual strategies as a commentary on post-industrial French identity. Through the protagonist’s solitary act of tailoring a single suit, the film articulates themes of invisible labor, the erosion of craft communities, and the redemptive potential of material memory. Using a framework combining Rancière’s politics of aesthetics and de Certeau’s tactics of everyday life, this paper argues that the act of measuring, cutting, and stitching becomes a political gesture of resistance against economic precarity. Petit Tailleur -2010-