Germany/ Brazil: Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann

Labor in a Single Shot introduces us to the world of work in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. While work is a routine daily activity, there is invisible or unimaginable work, paid and unpaid, material and immaterial, traditional or entirely new. Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann (Germany) convened a group of young audiovisual artists in a workshop, in order to explore the different trades that are carried out in the city and create videos in the manner of the early films, using a single, fixed camera shot, or following a single, unedited movement. The shots capture the beauty of the work choreography, while revealing the repetitive aspect of all labour. 

Labor in a Single Shot, 2012/2013, Still from the video by Cristián Silva-Avária, Circular Movement, Rio de Janeiro 2012, courtesy of Harun Farocki Film Production, Berlin.