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With a career spanning over four decades and over ninety films, German filmmaker Harun Farocki has ceaselessly produced politically and artistically challenging works that “are a constant dialogue with images, with image making, and with the institutions that produce and circulate these images” (Thomas Elsaesser). This season, Cinema Project brings Farocki’s latest, In Comparison. Shot on 16mm, the film revisits issues explored in an earlier installation piece, examining work and social structures via brick production sites. Various traditions of brick-making are brought as examples—from cutting-edge European factories to wall builders in Burkina Faso, and semi-industrialized mouldings in India—as a way to compare, rather than incite competition of these cultures and their work processes. Opening the program is Farocki’s short video from 1995, Workers Leaving the Factory, a socio-political take on the 1895 Lumière film of the same name.