2023
4K video
24′ 45″
Between 2013 and 2014, a surveillance camera was secretly installed in front of the factory gate of a Chinese company which had been recently listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 24 Cinematic Points of View of a Factory Gate in China, the surveillance footage is resituated within a genealogy that extends back to the Lumieres’ seminal 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 workers back into the factory as its rightful owners would culminate in a scene where workers can barely be seen leaving the factory.