Admission starts at $5
January 12, 2023, 7pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, January 12 at 7pm for Labor, Class, Desire, a screening of Alain Guiraudie’s That Old Dream That Moves (2001), preceded by Apitchapong Weerasethakul’s Mobile Men (2008) .
Openly gay, devoted to the image of the everyday of working-class people from rural parts of the south of France, Alain Guiraudie maintains a singular and unique voice in contemporary moving-image art. His 2001 breakthrough film That Old Dream That Moves, hailed by Jean-Luc Godard as the best film that year, is a drama about the impenetrable mysteries of desire and the concrete facts of social reality. This screening presents a vitality-infused counter-narrative of labor and relationships, queering the dominant representation of the working class.
Apitchapong Weerasethakul, Mobile Men (2008, 3 minutes)
Following the 2006 military coup, a number of governmental decrees have made it unlawful for the migrant workers arriving in Thailand from Burma, Laos, and other neighboring states to go out at night, carry mobile phones, or ride motorbikes. In his three-minute video commissioned by Art for the World, a UN-aligned NGO, Weerasethakul focuses on two young migrant workers sitting in the back of a moving truck, shooting each other with a handheld camera. Weerasethakul describes his film in these words: “In my recent short film, the main actor is played by a migrant worker from Shan state in Burma named Jaai. The shooting of this film provided me with a great opportunity to learn from his stories. He is one of the lucky ones who have decent jobs and is content with his new living conditions. But there exist many others who are still living in the opposite circumstances. This film project, Mobile Men, is a portrait of Jaai. By the act of making the film, I would like to instill and capture his confidence and dignity. It is not about storytelling, but about a man who is full of life.”
Alain Guiraudie, That Old Dream That Moves (2001, 51 minutes)
That Old Dream That Moves is chronicle of the last days of a factory that is about to shut down. Among the workers forced to idle away until the end of the week, Jacques, a young technician, is busy dismantling a sophisticated machine while, without noticing, turning on some of the men around him.
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Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.