Double Feature: Patterns Against Workers & Wie man sieht

In the organizer's words:

Patterns Against Workers

Olena Newkryta, AT 2023, 34 min, English original language

From the loom to digital code. From the architectural organization of factories to the computer chip. 'Patterns Against Workers' shows how the collective knowledge of the weavers of past centuries is siphoned off and fed into the virtual machine rooms of our present and "how the management of time, space and work materializes in the commodity itself". An essay film that condenses its material to the maximum instead of meandering essayistically and whose mode of excessive demands is based on the exploitation and exhaustion of the workers to the point of sleeplessness. An audiovisual arrangement whose appropriately used cinematic means always operate close to the subject matter and develop an immense suction effect.

Guest: Olena Newkryta

Immediately afterwards with an introduction by Michael Baute and in cooperation with the Harun Farocki Institute:

As you can see

Harun Farocki, FRG 1986, 72 min, German OmeU

My film 'Wie man sieht' is a feature film, it has a lot of action. It tells of girls in porn magazines who are given names, and of the nameless dead in mass graves, of machines that are so ugly that a disguise has to protect the worker's eye, and of engines that are too beautiful for the hood to hide them, of working techniques that cling to the cooperation of hand and brain or want to put an end to it.

My film 'As You See' is an essay film. The current opinion apparatus is a big mouth and perhaps a shredder. I make a new text out of the scraps and thus organize a paper chase. My film is made up of many details and establishes many image-image and word-image and word-word relationships among them and can therefore fill an evening. I looked for and found a form in which you can do a lot with little money. (Harun Farocki)