In addition to the more pointed questions I was trying to ask about globalization, labour and advanced capitalism through the substitution of Dubai for “The Factory”, Workers seemed like a chance to answer a different version of your previous question - not “why film?” but rather “what is film?” It’s been 115 years since La Sortie des usines Lumière was screened for the public, and on a pretty basic level I wanted to see if a cinema of the past could still speak to our experience of the present.

Ben Russell