CHINA '88

Overview

The series of films ‘The Movement of People Working’ portrays human labor in its most elementary form. Shot by Niblock between 1973-91, on 16mm color film and later video, and in locations including Peru, Mexico, Hungary, Hong Kong, the Arctic, Brazil, Lesotho, Portugal, Sumatra, China, and Japan, the series comprises over 25 hours of footage. It focuses on work as a choreography of movements and gestures, dignifying the mechanical yet natural repetition of laborers’ actions.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1988

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Experimental Intermedia

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded