{"id":2754,"date":"2023-07-31T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arbeits-film-festival.at\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2026-10-16T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:36:42","slug":"ungeschoente-arbeitsrealitaeten-die-lehre-als-konservenfacharbeiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arbeits-film-festival.at\/en\/2023\/07\/31\/ungeschoente-arbeitsrealitaeten-die-lehre-als-konservenfacharbeiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dystopias of the working world"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-row-layout-wrap.wp-block-kadence-rowlayout.kb-row-layout-id2754_a02c5e-4e{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;}.kb-row-layout-id2754_a02c5e-4e > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:center;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id2754_a02c5e-4e > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:center;}.kb-row-layout-id2754_a02c5e-4e > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-none, 0rem );row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 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kadence-column2754_3326d7-c5 kb-section-dir-vertical-reverse inner-column-1\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1996\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\/\/arbeits-film-festival.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/gruzei_fabrik_druckfilemaster_verkleinert-edited-768x432-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arbeits-film-festival.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/gruzei_fabrik_druckfilemaster_verkleinert-edited-768x432-1.png 1996w, https:\/\/arbeits-film-festival.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/gruzei_fabrik_druckfilemaster_verkleinert-edited-768x432-1-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/arbeits-film-festival.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/gruzei_fabrik_druckfilemaster_verkleinert-edited-768x432-1-766x334.png 766w, https:\/\/arbeits-film-festival.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/gruzei_fabrik_druckfilemaster_verkleinert-edited-768x432-1-18x8.png 18w, https:\/\/arbeits-film-festival.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/gruzei_fabrik_druckfilemaster_verkleinert-edited-768x432-1-1024x446.png 1024w, https:\/\/arbeits-film-festival.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/gruzei_fabrik_druckfilemaster_verkleinert-edited-768x432-1-1536x669.png 1536w, https:\/\/arbeits-film-festival.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/gruzei_fabrik_druckfilemaster_verkleinert-edited-768x432-1-1319x575.png 1319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group padding-mobile is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2c90304e wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"titulo-mobile has-x-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.2;text-transform:uppercase\"><strong>Dystopias of the working world<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"film-ortdatauhr sub-mobile has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:1.2;text-decoration:none;text-transform:uppercase\">J\u00f6rg Markowitsch \u2014 31.07.2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-transform:none\"><strong>After more than a century, Katharina Gruzei's reinterpretation of the very first film in film history, \u2018Workers Leaving the Factory\u2019, shows a grim picture of the world of work and gives food for thought: Has the situation of workers deteriorated so much and what kind of worklife are we even heading towards?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film \u201cWorkers leaving the Lumi\u00e8re factories\u201d by the Lumi\u00e8re brothers in 1895, which we have deliberately selected as the cover photo of work-o-witch.at, is generally regarded as the first film ever made and respectively shown. The first camera in the history of film was pointed at the gate of the factory of the co-inventors of cinematography in Lyon, where photographic plates were produced. In the film, which lasts barely a minute, we see workers, above all women workers, streaming out of the gate. Although stylistically influential for documentaries of that time and later, this short film, which has only one take, is nevertheless staged and thus also the first feature film.<br><br>The film has not only found many imitators, it has also been used again and again by later experimental filmmakers as their point of reference, indeed, exactly 100 years later, Harun Farocki, for example, collected variations of this topos and assembled them into an excellent 30min essay film (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harunfarocki.de\/films\/1990s\/1995\/workers-leaving-the-factory.html\">Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik<\/a>, DE, 1995). Over the past two decades in particular, a new generation of experimental filmmakers has used Lumi\u00e8re\u2019s film as inspiration for their commentary on the state of labour in contemporary society. What most of these \u201cremakes\u201d have in common is a certain style, which Jennifer Peterson calls \u201cconceptual realism,\u201d characterized by single, long takes, a commitment to observation, and an absence of editorial contributions. Most of the films eschew dialogue altogether.<br><br>Ben Russell\u2019s \u201cWorkers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)\u201d (USA, 2008), for example, films migrant workers leaving an enormous mega-construction site in Dubai in a single take and with a still camera. Here, the workers definitely don\u2019t have that cheerful after-work mood, echoing the original. In a similar vein, nothing is explained and the viewer is forced to project meaning onto the film. A meaning which is pretty obvious in this case: the film makes an indictment of labour migration, globalization, and capitalism.<br><br>It was pleasure to explain during my contribution to the conference<a href=\"https:\/\/germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk\/2023\/02\/16\/cfp-images-at-work-labour-and-the-moving-image\/\">Images at Work: Labour and the Moving Image<\/a>\" at King\u2019s College London, that there also exists a kind of \u201cworkers leaving the factory\u201d-tradition in Austria. As early as 1984, internationally renowned avant-garde filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky took the physical film material itself as the source of a new film. In \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tscherkassky.at\/inhalt\/films\/dieFilme\/MotionPicture.html\">Motion Picture<\/a>\u201d he mounted fifty 16mm strips of unexposed film on the wall and projected a single frame from the Lumi\u00e8re film, creating a new three-minute film that more or less dissected the original into shades of darkness and light. It\u2019s like trying to reveal the code of (the) film itself.<br><br>Overtly grandiose for fans of avant-garde film, but of little use to labour researchers, as in my opinion it says little to nothing about work. The same can be said about \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixpackfilm.com\/en\/catalogue\/2304\/\">In, Over &amp; Out<\/a>\u201d by Sebastian Brameshuber from 2015. The filming location is not a factory gate, but the staff entrance of a renowned French art school. Brameshuber films the students coming out with twelve cameras simultaneously, all using a different, outdated format. The only thing I find interesting about it, as a labour researcher, is the fact that 120 years after Lumi\u00e8re, knowledge work seems to have finally taken the place of manual labour.&nbsp;<br><br>On the other hand, a film that I do find interesting, both from an artistic perspective and from the point of view of labour research, comes from the artist Katharina Gruzei*. With \u201cWorkers Leaving the Factory (again)\u201d (AT, 2012), Gruzei, who lives and works between Vienna and Linz, has practically made a prequel that<s>s<\/s>&nbsp;is set in the present and yet could also be set in the future.<br><br>At first, the 10-minute film seems to have little to do with the original. The camera follows a group of dark figures from behind, walking down a sinister corridor in which neon lights turn on and off, unnervingly unrhythmically. The overall picture is gloomy, car park atmosphere, at night, in the basement, you don\u2019t want to belong to this working class.\n\nIn stark contrast to the rather bright original, in which the workers dance beamingly out of the factory gate and the suspicion suggests that the female employees have even put on their Sunday best. Has the world of work really changed so much for the worse between 1895 and today? After all, 1895 also saw the birth of the&nbsp;<em>Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration G\u00e9n\u00e9rale du Travail<\/em>&nbsp;(CGT) and thus of the modern French trade union movement.<br><br>Gruzei\u2019s remake sketches a dystopian picture of a working-class world in just a few minutes and thus raises fundamental questions about the present and future of work: What does work and labour mean today? To what extent has anything actually improved?<br><br>After a extended viewing, the parallels to the original do become apparent. For example, the light installation piece used in the film \u2014 also by Gruzei \u2014 creates a comparable flickering effect that is also inherent in the original.  And at the very end, the original setting is recreated where the workers leave the factory. Yet, the factory gate is a rolling grille this time, and it is at night.<br><br>Notes:<br>*Der Vollst\u00e4ndigkeit halber w\u00e4re auch \u201e<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixpackfilm.com\/en\/catalogue\/1033\/\">La sortie<\/a>(AT 1998, 6min) by Siegfried A. Fruhauf could also to be mentioned and added to the list of \u201cworkers-remakes\u201d.<br>\u201eMotion Picture\u201c and other films by Peter Tscherkassky can be watched on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mubi.com\/de\/cast\/peter-tscherkassky\">MUBI<\/a>&nbsp;.<br><br>Reference:<br>Peterson, Jennifer (2013). Workers Leaving the Factory: Witnessing Industry in the Digital Age In.&nbsp;<em>The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media<\/em>, edited by Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, and John Richardson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column2754_a0a6f4-9c > .kt-inside-inner-col{display:flex;}.kadence-column2754_a0a6f4-9c > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-md, 2rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-3xl, 6.5rem);}.kadence-column2754_a0a6f4-9c > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column2754_a0a6f4-9c > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:flex-start;}.kadence-column2754_a0a6f4-9c > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kt-row-column-wrap > 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aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-block-hidden-mobile\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ee2332cf wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Die Arbeiterinnen verlassen die Fabrik\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/waXO_Nysfqs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase\">Arbeiterinnen verlassen die Fabrik, 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style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase\">Katharina Gruzei spricht \u00fcber Ihren Film &#8222;Die ArbeiterInnen verlassen die Fabrik&#8220;, 2min<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ee2332cf wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WORKERS LEAVING THE FACTORY (DUBAI)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/7528954?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" 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is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ee2332cf wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase\">Katharina Gruzei, Die ArbeiterInnen verlassen die Fabrik Jahr, 2012, \u00d6sterreich, Filmstill<br>\u00a9 Sixpackfilm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9790f0ff wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1624\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/arbeits-film-festival.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ArbeiterInnenGruzei4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2756\" 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