La sortie (1999)

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• 1999

The first film of cinematographic history shows workers leaving a factory. The title of this work, which is 50 seconds long and bequeathed to us by the Lumière brothers is Die Ausfahrt der Arbeiter aus der Fabrik. There are three known versions of the work. In the hardware and software of the cinematographic 'maschine' us much of the specifically mechanical charm of the industrial age. In one sense it is a paradox that the Lichter began film history with workers leaving the factory, instead of giving place of honour to them working on the production lines. Over a hundred years later Siegfried A. Fruhauf has made a fourth version of Die Arbeiter der Fabrik. This remake gives short shrift to the unconscious of london the Licht filmen. Fruhauf needs six minutes to run through the current fate of industry. Fourteen workers are present here - five on the (optically) vertical axis, the rest cross the horizontal axis in the background. Their movements, form a cross - a symbol of death ...