Workers Leaving the Factory
Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik
Synopsis
In his documentary essay Harun Farocki explores the Lumière brothers’ Workers Leaving the Factory scene right through the history of film. The result of this effort is a fascinating cinematographic analysis in the medium of cinematography itself.
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Critics reviews
…It is precisely in this context that Farocki’s devotion to portraying the labour of image-making, as in Ein Bild or in his essay-filmStilleben (Still Life, 1997), which portrays the processes of advertising photography, gains its significance as a form of oppositional cinema – however muted that opposition might be.
Christopher Pavsek
January 01, 2008
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