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Now showing — Workers Leaving the Factory · 5 works

  • 24 City Film · 2000s

    Workers from a shuttered Chengdu factory recall decades of labor and loss. Jia Zhangke blurs documentary and fiction into an elegy for socialist modernity.

    Urban isolationMemoryModernity
  • Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory is a 1895 film from France, associated with Louis Lumière. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

    After-hoursMemoryLonging
  • Severance Television · 2020s

    Office workers have their memories surgically divided. Corporate horror as existential allegory.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • Sky Rojo Television · 2020s

    Three sex workers flee their pimp across Spain. Pulp velocity and liberation.

    Urban isolationPowerSurveillance
  • The Circle Books · 2010s

    The Circle is a 2013 dystopian novel written by American author Dave Eggers. The novel chronicles tech worker Mae Holland as she joins a powerful Internet company. Her initially rewarding experience turns darker.

    PowerMemoryMigration
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  • Workers Leaving the Factory Music
  • The Workers Music
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  • The Communist Manifesto Essays
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  • Severance Television
  • 24 City Film