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[Commlist] Images at Work: Labour and the Moving Image Conference

Tue May 30 00:37:47 GMT 2023


Paul Flaig is happy to announce the following conference programme for *Images at Work: Labour and the Moving Image*, featuring keynote speaker Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky (University of Chicago) and to be held at King's College London from 22-23 June 2023. This conference is organised by Laura Lux (KCL) and Georgina Le Breuilly (KCL) and is part of theGerman Screen Studies Network <https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/>’s DAAD-funded Promoting German Studies Project, "German Screen Studies Network (GSSN): Media, Cultures, Histories” led by Dora Osborne and Paul Flaig (German and Film Studies, University of St Andrews).

Registration and further information about the conference as well as a special screening of works by Harun Farocki at Close Up Film Centre can be found here: Images at Work: Labour and the Moving Image Tickets, Thu 22 Jun 2023 at 08:00 | Eventbrite <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/images-at-work-labour-and-the-moving-image-tickets-636578512467>
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  Images at Work: Labour and the Moving Image

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*Nash Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus King’s College London Thursday 22 June - Friday 23 June 2023 *

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*This in-person international research conference brings together film studies scholars to examine representations of labour on screen*

In the nearly 130 years since the Lumière brothers filmed their employees in La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon [Workers Leaving the Factory] (1895), artists and filmmakers have explored the capacities of the moving image to examine labour as a crucial facet of everyday life and modern society. The Lumières’ iconic La Sortie – shot multiple times over several days (including a Sunday) – is emblematic of film’s history in witnessing both the evolution of work and the challenges and complexities of capturing those social and political realities of labour often abstracted or concealed from vision. In more recent times, renewed interest in La Sortie, through its re-appropriation by artists such as Harun Farocki, Kevin Jerome Everson, Sharon Lockhart, and Andrew Norman Wilson has coincided with a growing exploration of the status of labour in film. Meanwhile, the discussion around work has evolved, incorporating new voices and other immaterial, affective, digital and globalised forms of labour affected by changing economic models, technologies, media and means of production.


      Thursday 22 June 2023

*09.00-09.30 // Registration and welcome*(coffee)

*09.30-11.05 // Panel 1 -*/*Obsolescence, Extractivism, Remediation: Labour and Experimental Documentary*/

Lorenz Hegel, Coal, Metal, Labor: Means and Ends of Production in Marx and Wang Bing’s West of the Tracks (2002) (PhD Candidate, Yale University)

Lawrence Alexander, Workers Leaving the Chapel: “Cross-Influence”, Extractivism, and the Labours of Moving Image Excavation in Harun Farocki’s The Silver and the Cross (2010) (Visiting Researcher, Free University of Berlin)

Palita Chunsaengchan, Surveying Deaths of Single-Screen Theatres, Media Obsolence and Labor Disposal in Bangkok through Phantom of Illumination (2017) (Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota)

Jörg Markowitsch, Dystopias of the working world: Katharina Gruzei's reinterpretation of ‘Workers Leaving the Factory’ (Independent Researcher) [online]

*11.10-12.25 // Panel 2 –*/*Working Bodies: Maternal labour, Caretaking and Nursing in Documentary*/

Alice Bardan, Maternal Labor, Anxiety, and Precarity in Audre Pepin’s Observational Documentary A la vie/Sheroes (2019) (Assistant Professor, Mount St. Mary’s University)

Wiebe Copman, “… which is also work.”: Caretaking and the Lyrical Mode in Ute Aurand and Maria Lang’s Der Schmetterling im Winter (2006) (Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ghent University)

Laura Lux, The Body as a Factory: Surgical Images and the Labour of Nursing in Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022) (PhD Candidate, King’s College London)

*12.30-13.30 // Lunch*(provided)

*13.30-15.05 // Panel 3 -*/*Revolution and its Challenges: Unrest and Activism on Screen*/

David Wilt, The Proletariat and the Mexican Revolution in Mexican Cinema (Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University)

Harrison Whitaker, The End of Hollywood’s Union Man (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge)

Sarah Hamblin, The Crisis of Comfort: Post-Fordist Labour and Radical Politics in Satayjit Ray’s Calcutta Trilogy (Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Sarah Ann Wells, The International Women’s Strike Film (Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison) [online]

*15.10-16.10 // Panel 4 –*/*Hidden Labour and Means of Production in Cinema*/

Theodor Frisorger and Dennis Göttel, Televised Filmmaking: Early Making-of Films at the WDR (PhD Candidate, University of Cologne) and (Junior professor, University of Cologne)

Joshua Schulze, Painted Sandals and Blistered Feet: The Production of Sundown (1941) and the Racialized Labor of Hollywood Extras (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan) [online]

*16.10-16.30 // Break*(coffee)

*16.30-18.00 // Keynote – Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky*

*20:00-21:30 // Screening –*/*Harun Farocki / Labour through the Decades*/*(Close-Up Film Centre)*This free screening has been organised as a sister event to the conference. Separate registration is required. Due to the limited capacity of the cinema, tickets will only be available in advance and on a first-come-first-served basis. Conference registration does not guarantee admission.*A booking link will be shared here soon.*


      Friday 23 June 2023

*09.30-10.00 // Late Registration*(coffee)

*10.00-11.00 // Panel 5 –*/*Precarity and Unrest in Contemporary French Cinema*/

Temenuga Trifonova, L’emploi du temps: The New Landscape of Work and Struggle in Contemporary French Cinema (Associate Professor, University College London)

Francesco Sticchi, Brizé-Lindon’s Trilogy of Work (Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University)

*11.05-12.20 // Panel 6 –*/*From Early Automation to Globalisation: German Histories of Labour in Film*/

Alex Fletcher, Representing Global Labour in Late Farocki (Associate Lecturer, University of the Arts London)

Stephan Hilpert, Leaving the Factory: Christian Petzold’s Wolfsburg (2003) (Macromedia University, Cologne)

Nick Hodgin, East German Documentaries: Love of Labour and Labour of Love (Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University)

*12.20-13.30 // Lunch*(provided)

*13.30-14.45 // Panel 7 -*/*Digital Labour and Film: Breakdowns, Simulation, and Absence*/

Nick Jones, Digital Work Rendered Visible: VFX Breakdowns and the Absent Artist (Senior Lecturer, University of York)

Carleigh Morgan, Crowd Work: Animation and Automation in the Production of Simulated Crowds (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge)

Matthias Kispert, Representing Digital Platform Work through Delegate Performance (Research Assistant, University of Westminster)

*14.50-16.05 // Panel 8 –*/*The Ethics of Participation: Film Collectives and Participatory Filmmaking*/

Yung-Hang Bruce Lai and Fredie Chan Ho Lun, Empowering Precarious Workers through Participatory Filmmaking: A Case Study of Fredie Chan’s Independent Cinema in Hong Kong (Research Associate, King’s College London) and (independent documentary filmmaker)

Lorenzo Lazzari, After Work: The Experience of Video-Nou in Can Serra, 1978 (PhD Candidate, University of Udine)

Liesje Baltussen, Fugitive Cinema and the Working Class: Two Ways of Engaging (PhD Candidate, University of Antwerp)

*16.05-16.30 // Break*(coffee)

*16.30-17.45 // Panel 9 –*/*Theory and Method: Critical Approaches to Work on Screen*/

Angelika Seppi, “Tout va bien”: Class Struggle and the Limits of Cinematic Representation (Visiting Professor, Bauhaus-University Weimar)

Elisabeth Korn, The Dialectic of Image and Labour: An Impulse for Rethinking the Culture Industry after 1968 (Lecturer, University of Film and Television Munich)

Joshua Harold Wiebe, The Screen is Black: Labour and Negation (PhD Candidate, University of Toronto) [online]

*17.45-18.00 // Closing Remarks*


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