50 Years of Arsenal – Bricks. Harun Farocki is our guest

To celebrate our anniversary, we are presenting new prints of six films from our collection with the help of the Capital Cultural Fund in Berlin. CHIRCALES (Brick Workers) by Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva (Colombia 1972) is about a large family that makes bricks from mud for a pittance but then is laid off. Observing in documentary fashion and featuring an off-camera commentary, the film analyzes the relationship between workers deprived of rights and poverty. We will also show Harun Farocki's ZUM VERGLEICH (G 2009), a documentary about brick production in Africa, India and Europe, made almost 40 years later. The comparison between traditional, early and highly industrialized society sheds new light on CHIRCALES. (16.9.)