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.

Demolition Workers

One of Hu Jie's 'Farmers Working in the City' films. The city is developing rapidly, with tall buildings and highways. Behind this bustling city, there is such a group of people. They come from the countryside. Maybe the

Supervising Women Workers

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

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 The Movie

A trio of happy-go-lucky workers wipe sweat and work hard in every corner. As Chang is feeling anxious about his large number of traffic tickets, Qi suggests to get help from a lawyer. These two workers meet with Quan, w

We the Workers

Between 2009 and 2015, Wen Hai followed the lives of workers and worker activists in southern China, the world’s factory. His astonishing film gives nameless workers a face, shows their vital sense of justice and resista

Women Farm Workers

These Land Girls are firm friends - and just as good at farm work as the men they replaced during WWI.

Calling All Workers

Documentary short about the government census of unemployed but employable workers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2009.

Cold Railway Workers

January 1963 was the coldest English month of the entire twentieth century. A news item in the typical vox pop style finds Tim Downes asking a group of railway workers how they're coping. But all the interviewees are Wes

Workers Leaving the Factory

Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in industrial production, workers' strikes and motion pictures-- via images of w

Homes for Workers

This celebratory 1939 film, sponsored by a local gas company and introduced by LH Keay, architect and director of housing in Liverpool, is an enthusiastic overview of the slum-clearance programme that had been undertaken

Workers Before Adults

Guests and Workers

A comedy mocking the self-management system - the workers become owners of a luxury hotel on the Adriatic coast.

Workers Leaving the Office

Project commissioned by the Goethe Institut and the MIT Open Documentary Lab under the mentorship of Harun Farocki. Labour in a Single Shot explores the theme of work, paid and unpaid, through the lens of the single take

Welfare of the Workers

A story of sacrifice, in which organised labour voluntarily relinquishes hard-won workplace rights after being asked "to give up by choice what Hitler takes by force."

Workers Leaving the Googleplex

Due to his video- and interview-based investigations of a top-secret, marginalized class of book-scanning workers on the campus of Google headquarters, Andrew Norman Wilson was fired from his job there as a video editor.

Workers on the Land

Follows a small, rural Canadian family as they struggle to keep a hard-working farmhand employed on their land during the winter months.

Artistic Migrant Workers

The documentary about Zhu Xiaoguang, a man came to Beijing with the dream of being a director, he used his DV to record all these happiness and sadness in Beijing...

Asia, Workers' Awakening

China, Cambodia and Bangladesh have known for two years violent movements of workers' protests. Outsourcing of the subcontractors for a poor country to another are not without consequences. With the awareness of workers