Introduction
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Part of the Conference
In Front of the Factory: Cinematic Spaces of Labour
At the same time, a new vocabulary capturing the expansions of labour – affective labour, care work, women’s work, immaterial and precarious labour – has made it possible to deepen our understanding of what ought to be considered as labour and where this labour happens. In the same vein, a growing number of filmmakers are showing a commitment to render the spaces where work takes place today visible again. Despite arguments to the contrary, film and the moving image have always been concerned with the processes of labour, including the work of cinema itself. If film theorists such as Jean Louis Comolli chastised cinema’s distancing approach to spaces of labour, it could be argued that they had in mind a limited notion of the workspace. In other words, whilst the space in front of the factory has enjoyed relatively little screen time in film’s history, spaces of labour hold an enduring relationship with the medium.
This conference will tackle the historically shifting relationship between cinema and the representation of labour spaces and will reflect on the renewed attention to the workspace in today’s art cinema and documentary production.
Venue
ICI Berlin(Click for further documentation)
With
Karl SchoonoverEwa Mazierska
Elena Pollacchi
Britta Lange
Mona Damluji
Andreas Bunte
Daniel Eisenberg
Alex Gerbaulet
Mantas Kvedaravicius
Organized by
Saima AkhtarRosa Barotsi
Clio Nicastro