24 Cinematic Points of View of a Factory Gate in China

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 Lumières’ 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 footage through a “cinematic point of view”, the film spans over a century of European, American and Chinese cinema to examine how the Revolution, which returned the country’s factories to its workers, has culminated in a scene of their near disappearance.