Patterns Against Workers

Exploring patterns of weave codes, datasets, and orchestrated gestures, this essay film reveals the entanglements of economic, political and engineering forces that manifest in exploitative labour conditions today.

The Steel Workers

First seen as incidental characters in an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon, these three monkeys act is reminiscent of the Three Stooges. Acting out in pantomime, the monkeys were a bit hit with audiences in the mid-1930's.

(Sex Workers Cry) Rights Not Rescue in Cambodia

In Rights Not Rescue, the film’s subjects question Cambodia’s focus on training ‘Rescued’ female sex workers to sew in low wage garment factories. They want governments, NGOs, labour unions, and donors to seriously addre

Social Workers at War

Holy Workers

It's a tough world with jobs. Taebaek Lee, a young white man, is only looking for a comfortable job that pays a lot of money. He spends a lot of money on his kind girlfriend and cheats on him. Then, he gets a job at a co

Workers Exit from the Confiança Shirt Factory

A large number of workers, mostly young women, leave by the front door of their work place at lunch time. The building has an impressive colonnaded facade, and is located at 181, Santa Catarine St., Porto - one of the ci

Professor Chu's Summer Homework: The Struggle of Women Workers at Ban-Chiao Clothing Factory

In 1992, more than 130 female workers in Jialong Garment Factory lost their jobs. That year, in order to transfer capital to Indonesia, the factory announced the closure of the factory at the same time as the union was e

Model Workers

Model Workers presents a collection of paper money bearing images of workers. Intricately engraved details are arranged in chronological order; full views of the banknotes are in reverse chronological order, ending at th

Supervising Women Workers

Management addresses the special problems of women workers with concern and a heavy dose of sexism.

Workers Films of the ‘thirties

Traces independent filmmaking in 1930s Britain, focused on coverage of political marches and rallies. Essay film, formed from the archives of the Film & Photo League with the Kino Group.

Women in the Wings: Pittsburgh's World War II Workers

A documentary about the women who built glider planes at the H.J. Heinz plant in Pittsburgh during World War II. While America's men fought overseas, women in Pittsburgh built glider wings at the Heinz factory. The glide

Dignidad: California Domestic Workers' Journey for Justice!

Coming to this country with dreams of a better life, frontline caregivers, nannies and house cleaners risk it all to support their families while fighting for workplace protections during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through g

Watermelon Slim And The Workers - Live At The Ground Zero Blues Club

The Workers Advancing from 87 to 89

We are workers

The daily commute of Cho Sang-ji, a Disabled Employment worker in Nodeul. Cho Sang-ji never expected to live the salary life that way and even though it fills her with happiness, her commutes aren't deprivated of difficu

Casual Workers

An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

A MESSAGE FROM MIGRANT WORKERS

Stories that take us through the labyrinth of our minds to meet the monsters lurking in dark corners. At times these minds of ours can feel like they’re anxiously spinning in circles, drowning us with fears, but they are

Workers Leaving the Jute Works, Barrow

Short documentary subject produced by Mitchell & Kenyon. A print survives at the BFI.

COVID-19 and Cape Town's Homeless Transgender Sex Workers

The GALA Queer Archive, with the generous support of SAIH, commissioned a short film looking into the experiences of homeless transgender sex workers across Cape Town. In different areas across Cape Town, there are commu

Workers Leaving the Job Site

The Lumière Brothers’ first film is reimagined at a job site in Columbus, Mississippi.