Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project (1) (Film Culture in Transition)

By: Peter J. Schwartz and Roy Grundmann and Gregory H. Williams

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Synopsis: 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 video-maker 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 410 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040792278
Related ISBNs:: 9781041181897, 9789463722421, 9781040777596, 9781003698623
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/01/25
Copyrighted By:: The authors / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Roy Grundmann
Edited by:: Peter Schwartz
Edited by:: Gregory Williams