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Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon
Louis Lumière, France, 1895, 1’

A man opens the large gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France, in 1895: a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birthplaces of cinema. Through the gate and a smaller door next to it, workers stream out for lunch. Most of them are women in long dresses and large hats, but some are men. Once all the workers have left the factory, the gatekeeper closes the gate again.

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Bio Louis Lumière

Louis Jean Lumière (1864–1948) was a French manufacturer of photography equipment. Along with his brother Auguste, he is best known for their Cinématographe system and the short films they produced between 1895 and 1905, which places them among the earliest filmmakers.

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In the historical context of industrialisation and developing free-market economy in Europe, the motif of the factory worker leaving his place of work assumes a key role. What is striking is that more than just a few women are among the workers—filmic proof that the industrial revolution acknowledged the female labour force, and that new professions outside the domestic sphere were opening up.

Sophie Leschik, ZKM
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In this urgent diary film about longing for freedom and community, the filmmaker reflects on the individual yet collective experience of growing up queer in Tunisia today.

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Barbara Hammer, USA, 1976, 23’

A series of cameo portraits of Barbara Hammer’s friends and lovers intercut with a playful celebration of fruits and vegetables in nature. The culminating footage evokes a tantric painting of sustained sexuality.

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A Letter to Mohamed

Christine Moderbacher, Belgium, Tunisia, Austria, 2013, 35’

This is a cinematic letter to the title character, who left Tunisia and now lives in Belgium. Shot in the first year after the Tunisian revolution, this is a poetic journey through a troubled landscape. Between order and chaos, the film reveals a land of disillusionment but also of humour and hope.

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Luc de Heusch, Belgium, 1958, 23’

This satirical ethnographic film shows eating Belgians in diverse contexts. Dinner scenes at weddings, funerals, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve portray a country: loneliness and community alternate, just as wealth and poverty.

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Juanita Onzaga, Belgium, Colombia, 2017, 20’

Two siblings roam the mystical landscapes of Colombia, searching for their dead father's spirit. Their journey takes them from the city of Bogotá to the jungle, through realms of thought and deep into their haunted dreams.

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Diego Quinderé de Carvalho, Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, 2021, 24’

Eight thousand five hundred kilometres lie between the Amazon and the Ardennes. In his home country of Brazil, filmmaker Diego looks at the inaccessible forest from the outside. Its Belgian counterpiece, however, is easier to explore.

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Pol Merchan, Germany, 2018, 13’

Punk author Kathy Acker’s work is the starting point for a conversation about gender identity and body transformation and is linked to the punk movement of the 1970s and 1980s.

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Andrés Jurado, Colombia, Portugal, 2022, 21’

In 20th-century Colombia, resistance fighter Yarokamena, a member of the indigenous Uitoto tribe, called for rebellion against violent exploitation of the rubber mining industry in the Amazone and invoked the spiritual powers of war.

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