Based on one of the Lumière brothers’ historic first films, Harun Farocki has created a montage of scenes from 100 years of film history, all variations on the theme of “workers leaving the factory”. Farocki uses the pictures to reflect on the iconography and economy of a workers’ society, as well as that of cinema itself, which tends to acquire its audience at the gates of the factory and hijack them into the private sphere.

《厂工之爱情》这是一个俗套的爱情故事。用对传统的破坏致敬中国第一部默片《劳工之爱情》。一个女人对一个男人穷追不舍，致使男人与工厂的交流一次次被打断，女人是中国传统概念里的妖精，对男人的介入堪称恐怖袭击。而在粗暴的你追我赶里男人和女人产生了最高级的交流。本片为《结婚三部曲》的第三自然段。 　　2016 Cutting Edge Film Festival 实验单元

电影«Завод»是导演Юрий Быков 2019年指导的一部现实主义的题材的电影，与上一部电影«Дурак»（危楼愚夫）一样，导演关注俄罗斯社会的底层阶级的悲苦生活，经济寡头毫无人性的巧取豪夺，政府官员的贪婪腐败，以及战争对退伍士兵留下的不可磨灭的心理创伤。 　　资本家为追求更高利润解雇了工人，甚至工资也延后半年发放。工人们即将失去收入来源，无法维持生计。被逼入绝境的六位工人们铤而走险，决定抢劫工厂老板康斯坦金·迪米特里耶维奇（下称卡卢金），找他讨要拖欠的工资。故事便由此展开

这部纪录片让人联想到弗雷德里克·怀斯曼纪录片的风格，其时长成为了一种艺术表达手段，旨在让观众沉浸式地、深入地了解中国工厂工人的工作环境、全球供应链带来的影响，以及在自动化程度不断提高的世界中，劳动力市场未来的发展趋势。通过这一视角，这部纪录片深刻揭示了中国的社会生活、工作的本质，以及全球化所带来的广泛影响。

Masculine and feminine, hard and soft, continues and interrupted, whole and fragmented. All that is encompassed by just one day at the factory.

这部纪录片让人联想到弗雷德里克·怀斯曼纪录片的风格，其时长成为了一种艺术表达手段，旨在让观众沉浸式地、深入地了解中国工厂工人的工作环境、全球供应链带来的影响，以及在自动化程度不断提高的世界中，劳动力市场未来的发展趋势。通过这一视角，这部纪录片深刻揭示了中国的社会生活、工作的本质，以及全球化所带来的广泛影响。

Attempt to look at the Polish workers early seventies, their daily problems and concerns. After the protest in December 1970 years took place discredited Edward Gierek team and his companions, promising 'new Poland'. The workers, however, remain critical, suspicious, still eager to revolt. The original version of the film was never publicly shown. After the cuts and przemontowaniu - against the wishes of authors - created version called '' team ''( ''Gospodarze''), which was the issue of television.

"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide 　　"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps. 　　The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson 　　"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum