In this second selection, film critic Yazan Ashqar presents short films based on themes related to Mohamad Badarne’s work shown in the Lab. Starting with ‘Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory’ from 1895, the first film ever projected to an audience, the selection takes us through more than a century of short films about workers, class, and social changes.

1. Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory
Dir: Louis Lumière
1895 - 1 min
France

2. A Carpenter
Dir: Wojciech Wiszniewski
1976 - 13 minute
Poland
Subtitled in English

3. Technological Threat
Dir: Bill Kroyer, Brian Jennings
1988 - 5 Min
United States

4. Island of flowers
Dir: Jorge Furtado
1989 - 13 minutes
Brazil
Subtitled in English

5. Drux Flux
Dir: Theodore Ushev
2008 - 5 minutes
Canada

6. CAIRO As Told By Youssef Chahine (Al-Qahira Menauwwara Bi Ahlaha)
Dir: Youssef Chahine
1991 - 24 minutes
Egypt
Subtitled in English