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Workers Leaving the Factory

Germany, 1995
film

In this documentary essay based on the Lumière brothers groundbreaking film, Harun Farocki uses to provide an insight into the changes both in work and film t..

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Men and supermen

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Tout va bien

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Early cinema. Vol. 01

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Lumiere and company

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