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Harun Farocki 哈倫．法洛基
Workers Leaving the Factory 工人離開工廠
1995
This work leads the viewer through various cinematic depictions of workers leaving factories. Harun Farocki was strongly influenced by La sortie de l’Usine Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon), made in 1895 by Louis and Auguste Lumière and considered the earliest cinematic film. Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik (Workers Leaving the Factory) brings together footage from documentaries and narrative films, including Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936), and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Accattone (1961). In each scene, Farocki provides voiceover commentary such as ‘the workers are running as if something were drawing them away’, and ‘the workers are running as if they had already lost too much time.’ Farocki’s depiction of industrialisation literally moves away from the factory space, addressing production and class consciousness beyond the assembly line.
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