[Click last image above for video playback. Full-screen view is available by selecting icon in lower right upon playback and/or navigating to Vimeo «V» site.]
HISTORY LESSON
The image of the communist meets the commutation test. A recited self-description of the Wobblies (the Industrial Workers of the World, or IWW) is continuously recalibrated on the fly in relation to a piece of early twentieth-century film that documents workers strolling the grounds of a factory. The footage is first presented on screen, then projected back onto the surfaces of a former factory space. History Lesson raises the question of «synchronization» in the image-narration montage and, by oblique extension, in the relationship between the contemporary image of the «working class», non-labor time, and an emancipatory politics.
< VIDEO PREVIEW: CLICK ON FINAL THUMBNAIL IMAGE >
Format: Single-channel film/video
Year: 2010/20
Duration: 6:30