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Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik + Zum Vergleich
Harun Farocki – who also taught for several years in Vienna – used film like few others as an analytical tool to dissect labor and production relations.
In Workers Leaving the Factory (1995), exactly 100 years after the birth of cinema, he picks up on the theme introduced by the Lumière brothers and edits together footage of workers leaving factory gates (or protesting in front of them) into a sharp, fast-paced essay film.
Through voiceover narration, he reflects on power and surveillance, and contrasts the factory gate with the prison gate.
In In Comparison (2009), the conceptual setup is just as simple as it is visually compelling:
How are bricks made in different parts of the world – in India, Africa, or even Lower Austria?
Farocki offers only the raw footage – along with a few intertitles.
The act of comparing pre-, early-, and highly industrialized production societies, and drawing conclusions about the division of labor, prosperity, and community, is left entirely to the audience.
(Jörg Markowitsch)
With an introduction by Christoph A. Büttner.