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oapen-20.500.12657-516342021-12-04T02:43:29Z Labour in a Single Shot Grundmann, Roy Schwartz, Peter Williams, Gregory Video, documentary, labour, global, art bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AF Art forms::AFK Non-graphic art forms::AFKV Electronic, holographic & video art bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFA Film theory & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFR Documentary films bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and videomaker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history’s first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, shot in 1895 by the Lumière brothers in France. While the workshop videos are in colour and the camera was not required to remain static, Ehmann and Farocki’s students were tasked with honouring the original Lumière film’s basic parameters of theme and style. The fascinating result is a collection of more than 550 short videos that have appeared in international exhibitions and on an open-access website, offering the widest possible audience the opportunity to ponder contemporary labour in multiple contexts around the world. 2021-12-03T10:41:02Z 2021-12-03T10:41:02Z 2022 book 9789463722421 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51634 eng Film Culture in Transition application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048550210.pdf https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-90-485-5021-0-highres.jpg; https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-90-485-5021-0-frontcover.jpg; https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-90-485-5021-0-thumb.jpg Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463722421 10.5117/9789463722421 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789463722421 428 Amsterdam open access
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This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and videomaker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history’s first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, shot in 1895 by the Lumière brothers in France. While the workshop videos are in colour and the camera was not required to remain static, Ehmann and Farocki’s students were tasked with honouring the original Lumière film’s basic parameters of theme and style. The fascinating result is a collection of more than 550 short videos that have appeared in international exhibitions and on an open-access website, offering the widest possible audience the opportunity to ponder contemporary labour in multiple contexts around the world.
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