Workers Leaving the Factory

Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik

1995｜Germany｜36min
In German with Chinese and English subtitles. Mainland China premiere

Marking the hundredth anniversary of the first screening of the Lumière brothers’ Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, Harun Farocki assembled a montage from the many shots in the history of film and imagery that take “workers leaving the factory” as their subject.

Directed by Harun Farocki

Harun Farocki (1944–2014) was a renowned visual artist who made more than one hundred works for television, cinema, and video, including children’s television programs, documentaries, essay films, and fiction features. He was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1974 to 1984 he worked as a writer and editor for the Munich magazine Filmkritik.

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