A season of Footage and Films Part 2. Two Footage Films
Dec. 17, 2010 - Dec. 19, 2010
Two Footage Films, or How to make use of a Footage Archive.
December 18th, 2010,
6:30 pm onwards.
Maha Maamoun, 2009
60 minutes.
2. Workers Leaving the Factory
Harun Farocki, 1995
36 minutes.
CAMP continues its winter season of screenings exploring footage both within and outside the usual capsule of "the film". Screenings at CAMP roof, starting at 6:30 pm
Both of these films begin with a
premise that sounds like a google search: to use scenes depicting 1.
the pyramids and 2. workers leaving the factory. But Maha Maamoun's
film, Domestic Tourism II produces effects far more politically and
psychologically diverse that one would imagine by reading the premise
alone. The "keyword" is then neither the whole story, nor worthless, in shaping our encounter with this surprising archive of Egyptian film.
Harun
Farocki's film "Workers Leaving The Factory" has been exhibited in
different formats since 1995, including as a multi-monitor installation,
'Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades' (2006). Beginning with
the 1895 shot, "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon", It
brings together scenes that may be only incidental to a films
narrative, but in another assemblage such as here, produce a different
set of identifications. We will screen both the film and a selection of
clips from the installation, with a few addenda from Hindi cinema.
