PATTERNS AGAINST WORKERS
Filmessay, 33:50 min., 2023, English (de/en subs)

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From looms to a digital code. From factories to the computer chip. From gestures to automated machines. Patterns Against Workers delves deep into the fabrics of technological infrastructures that determine contemporary conditions of labour. Tirelessly swiping and scrolling through archival documents, images and patterns, the short film interweaves the economic, political, and engineering forces, which manifest in the operating systems of our glowing screens. There, behind its surface, the repetitive patterns of weave codes, datasets, and orchestrated gestures, echo methods of capitalistic extraction that not only penetrate algorithmic networks but also deserted landscapes and sleepless bodies.

Patterns Against Workers addresses the state of collective exhaustion not only as a pathologic symptom of capitalism's exploitative forces, but as a socio-political condition that bears the potential for resistance - by becoming radically unruly.

In the exhibition space the film is accompanied by a textile display consisting of woven Jacquard fabrics. Oscillating between the production of textiles and the production of space, the virtual and physical, the image and the screen, the gridded fabrics create an architectural setting for the film projection.

Distribution: sixpack film
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