Labor, Class, Desire

Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, January 12 at 7pm for Labor, Class, Desire, a screening of Alan Guiraudie's That Old Dream That Moves (2001, 51 minutes).

Openly gay, devoted to the image of the everyday of working-class people from rural parts of the south of France, Alain Guiraudie maintains a singular and unique voice in contemporary moving-image art. His 2001 breakthrough film That Old Dream That Moves, hailed by Jean-Luc Godard as the best film that year, is a drama about the impenetrable mysteries of desire and the concrete facts of social reality. This screening presents a vitality-infused counter-narrative of labor and relationships, queering the dominant representation of the working class.

That Old Dream That Moves (2001, 51 minutes)

That Old Dream That Moves is chronicle of the last days of a factory that is about to shut down. Among the workers forced to idle away until the end of the week, Jacques, a young technician, is busy dismantling a sophisticated machine while, without noticing, turning on some of the men around him.

Alain Guiraudie (b. 1964) is a French film director and screenwriter. His films are characteristic of a mix of surrealism and social commentary, with a particular focus on gay life. Born into an agricultural family in the Aveyron region of France, he developed an interest in film through a steady diet of comic books, television, and genre films. After studying at the University of Montpelier, Guiraudie wrote several novels before switching to filmmaking. Guiraudie's films have received numerous nominations in various festivals, and his feature film Stranger By the Lake was awarded by the Un Certain Regard Best Director and Queer Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.

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–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.

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–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.

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