Labour in a Single Shot
Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki's Global Video Project
Published on 4. December 2021
Book
Hardback
410 pages
978-94-6372-242-1 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and video-maker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history's first film, Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory, shot in 1895 by the Lumiere brothers in France. While the workshop videos are in colour and the camera was not required to remain static, Ehmann and Farocki's students were tasked with honouring the original Lumiere film's basic parameters of theme and style. The fascinating result is a collection of more than 550 short videos that have appeared in international exhibitions and on an open-access website, offering the widest possible audience the opportunity to ponder contemporary labour in multiple contexts around the world.
Reviews / Votes
"the most significant contribution of Labour in a Single Shot as both media project and critical anthology is to make visible and sometimes more legible the conditions of labor in a twenty-first century that has overturned, undermined, or-to use that most odious of management terms-"disrupted" how we work under current conditions of capitalism."Michael Zryd, Europe Now, July 2023
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
110 s/w Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-6372-242-1 (9789463722421)
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Roy Grundmann | Peter Schwartz | Gregory Williams
Labour in a Single Shot
Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki's Global Video Project
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Roy Grundmann | Peter Schwartz | Gregory Williams
Labour in a Single Shot
Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki's Global Video Project
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10/2025
Routledge
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Roy Grundmann | Peter Schwartz | Gregory Williams
Labour in a Single Shot
Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki's Global Video Project
E-Book
10/2025
Routledge
€0.00
Available for download
Persons
Roy Grundmann is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Boston University. Peter J. Schwartz is Associate Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Film at Boston University. Gregory H. Williams is Associate Professor of Contemporary and Modern Art History at Boston University.
Content
Acknowledgements, 1. Foreword: Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit/Labour in a Single Shot (Detlef Gericke), 2. Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives - Editors' Introduction (Roy Grundmann, Peter J. Schwartz, and Gregory H. Williams), 3. Labour in a Single Shot - Antje Ehmann's Workshop and Exhibition Journals , 2011-2014 (Antje Ehmann), History, 4. Attitudes Towards Work : On the Historical Metamorphoses of Psychotechnology (Peter J. Schwartz), 5. One Shot, Two Mediums, Three Centuries (Roy Grundmann), 6. The Body and the Senses: Harun Farocki on Work and Play (Thomas Elsaesser), Poetics, 7. Ten Propositions (Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann), 8. Videopoetics of Labour in a Single Shot (Jose Gatti), 9. Knowing When to Be Wary of Images (David Barker), Embodiment, 10. Punching In/Punching Out: Labour, Care, and Leisure at Work and at Play (Jeannie Simms), 11. Labour's Mediating Objects: Tools, Tactility, and Embodiment (Gregory H. Williams), Networks, 12. Database Labour: Supply Chains, Logistics, and Flow (Thomas Stubblefield), 13. Artwork and Artefact: The Networked Conditions of Labour in a Single Shot (Gloria Sutton), 14. Reading the Web Catalogue: Labour in a Single Shot as Online Environment (Vinicius Navarro), Bibliography Index of Labour in a Single Shot workshop videos, General index