13 oct 2010

Salida de la fábrica ayer y hoy

Workers leaving the factory - Dubai (2010):

Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) from Ben Russell on Vimeo
(8:00, 16mm, silent, 2008)
Author Ben Russell: 115 years later, another remake of the Lumiere Brothers pseudo-actuality film La Sortie des usines Lumière. This time around our factory is a job site, a construction site peopled by thousands of Southeast Asian laborers, a neo-Fordist architectural production site that manufactures skyscrapers like so many cars.
And the original reference:

Les Lumiere - La sortie des usines (1895):

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