https://www.labour-in-a-single-shot.net/de/filme
Antje Ehmann is a quietly spoken woman with a powerful presence. Her presentation of the project she has been directing which is now being exhibited in the Cooper Gallery was astounding. Anyone with proud working class ancestors would be romanced by this story, project, exhibition and the films. I say ancestors as I feel as though the manual work shown in most of these films is not the basis of a proud working class culture in Britain anymore. It has been dismantled. But before I become ensnared in a monologue regarding the interaction between identity, culture, class and politics in the UK today I shall stop and concentrate on the fascination of the films. It is such a simple concept. Film work in work take on a high quality camera for upto 2 minutes. Perhaps it is the very restrictive nature and breadth of situations and people who have taken up the challenge that create such a riveting body of work. I am reminded that simplicity of process coupled with ambition in concept is winning formula. The other astounding aspect of the work is the length of time and dedication of the artists who have produced it. I am going to look forward to spending time in the exhibition and learning so much more.
Antje Ehmann is a curator and artist based in Berlin. She studied literature, philosophy and media studies from 1988 to 1995, and worked with the team of the Duisburg Film Week and the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen between 1992 and 1998. Ehmann married Harun Farocki in 2001. Ehmann curated numerous group and solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide, together with Carles Guerra, Okwui Enwezor, Marius Babias amongst others. Ehmann is also co-editor of multiple books, including the volume Weimar Republic 1918-1933 in the German Research Foundation project History of Documentary Film in Germany (2000-2005). Ehmann has conducted workshops and exhibitions of the ongoing project Labour in a Single Shot in collaboration with Harun Farocki from 2011 to 2014, and since 2017, with Eva Stotz and Luis Feduchi. She was also involved in the production of the project as part of the Venice Biennale in 2013 and 2015.
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/events/harun-farocki-consider-labour
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