Themroc (Francia) Claude Faraldo, 1972 Themroc tells the story of a French blue collar worker who rebels against modern society and Fordist subjectivation- inside and outside the factory-, and becomes an urban caveman. Intelligible dialogue is replaced by an invented language of whistles and growls intended to sabotage social control.
Nr. 1 - Aus Berichten der Wach - und Patrouillendienste (De Informes, de Patrullas y Vigilancias Nº (Alemania) Helke Sander, 1984 With her two small children, a mother climbs onto the arm of a construction crane and threatens to jump if no affordable housing is found for her before that evening. “I could understand that a woman must have powerful reasons to place her children in danger”, Sander stated, “but I was more concerned with the large scale implications of such an action; I couldn’t care less about the actual motives”.
Workers leaving the Factory ("Trabajadores saliendo de la fábrica") (Alemania/Germany) Harun Farocki, 1995 The Lumière Brothers’ famous "La sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon" (1895) is the point of departure for an in-depth look at the way that film history has dealt with the subject of workers leaving a factory, from the birth of cinema. Through this film essay, Farocki contemplates the organisation of life in an industrialised society, while meditating on cinema as a means of constructing its representations.
Mollecular Organization. Helsinki , Mollecular Organization studies the functioning of semio-capitalism and develops soft technologies of cooperation, tools for building communities of abstract work. Established by Akseli Virtanen in 2007, it is formed by theorists, researchers and artists loosely inspired by Felix Guattari. Their projects include Ruines Presque (in Paris), and Kafkamachine, a cooperative experiment on Franz Kafka, inspired by an unrealized film conceived by Felix Guattari, and developed with Ueinzz theatre company (from Sao Paulo, Brazil).
