在这部工人离开工厂短片片中,Based on one of the Lumière brothers’ historic first films, Harun Farocki has created a montage of scenes from 100 years of film history, all variations on the theme of “workers leaving the factory”. Farocki uses the pictures to reflect on the iconography and economy of a workers’ society, as well as that of cinema itself, which tends to acquire its audience at the gates of the factory and hijack them into the private sphere.
A hundred years of scenes in which workers are seen leaving their factory spaces are used to deconstruct the ideology behind representations of such workers in both fiction and non fiction films.
