A Work in Progress:
unwritting labour
Film screening programme
24 Feb t/m 09 Mar 2025
Extrapool, Nijmegen
This film screening was part of Extrapool’s residency programme Some Fire to Melt These Icy Icy New Beginnings
and was followed by a collective workshop + reading group ‘Darling, I don’t have a dream job. I do not dream of labour.’ Designed by Text my Sister
Text my Sister engages with audiences to reflect on the intimate and global stakes surrounding labor in our collective past, present, and future. This program of independent films explores the changing landscapes of labour, examining its shifting meanings, challenges, and possibilities in a rapidly changing world.
Through experiment and work with a powerful imagination, this selection examines the intersections of technology, identity, economy, ecology, and humanity, offering a multifaceted lens on what it means to work in an age of automation, precarity, and innovation.
From poetic narratives of the rhythms of manual labour to a speculative vision of future society, these films confront the beauty, complexity, and absurd contradictions of human endeavor. How is technology redefining the role of labour in our lives? Who benefits and who is left behind in the relentless drive for progress?
Film Programme March 2nd:
Know Your Stones
Katerina Jazbec
2023
21’
As we face climate change, young activists, steelworkers, and a geologist come together in a time-travelling space full of nightmares and aspirations.
The Upcoming Polar Silk Road
Elena Mazzi
2021
9’45’’
Set in Iceland, The upcoming Polar Silk Road intends to analyze the complex intertwining between economy, geopolitics, ecology and mobility within the Arctic regions mostly affected by the infrastructural, economic and political transformations linked to the Polar Silk Road.
Watermelon Republic / Dinnyeköztársaság
Katalin Erdődi, Máté Kőrösi, Antje Schiffers & Orsolya Török-Illyés
2021
40’
In the closing scene, farmer’s János drives home from the Budapest wholesale market in the middle of the night after hardly selling any melon. He talks about how small-scale farmers will not survive, unless they start cooperating.
Film Programme March 9th:
Factory to the Workers
Srđan Kovačević
2021
105’
Factory to the Workers explores the stability of a persisting worker-led factory after the breakup of socialism in Yugoslavia. Director Srđan Kovačević provides an insight into the resilience of laborers who battle for the advancement of workplace democratization.
The workers of the ITAS Factory are stakeholders in the film its profit.
