2023
4K video
24′ 45″
Between 2013 and 2014, surveillance cameras were secretly installed in front of the factory gates of several Chinese companies which had been recently listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The so-called due diligence-based investment company responsible for the operation sought to use the footage to expose fraud by showing how the amount of activity at their factory gates fell short of reflecting the revenue figures reported by these companies. In 24 Cinematic Points of View of a Factory Gate in China, these images are resituated within a genealogy that extends back to the Lumieres’ film showing workers walking out of a factory gate. As narrated by a fictional filmmaker who has been approached by an unnamed American investor to review the surveillance footage through a “cinematic point of view”, the film spans over a century of European, American and Chinese cinematic history to examine how the Revolution that brought the workers back into the factory as its rightful owners would culminate in a contemporary scenography of late capitalism where there appears to be not enough workers leaving the factory.