Time moving slowly: Workers in their factory
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009This film was heavily inspired by Soviet montage and at the narrative level appears to do so as well. Though the film with a political message may lead to a sense of being overdetermined I felt it worked well with the concept of time moving or appearing to move slowly. As workers hammer away at the their factory work they are driven by the dull monotonous tones of the hammer. Their work is abstracted labor power which leads to the production of capital for the owner-capitalist. I used the point of white and black pawns to represent this because it also shows how race has been used as a tool of working class division. The video acts both as a representation of where time moves slowly and as a commentary on the slow process of radicalization and perhaps current failure of revolution.
