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“The Black Worker” presents cinematic negotiations with race, class, and gender through an internationalist lens. Set in factories, agricultural fields, homes, hair salons, and hospitals, and chronicling domestic chores, industrial labor, underground economies, migrant work, and striking unions, these films explore material conditions and psychological states of exploitation—through forms as varied as a ghostly love story, experimental agitprop, neorealist drama, and archival documentary. Made between the 60s and 2020s, they provide a record of capitalism’s intertwinement with slavery and colonization. While showing there is no singular reality of “The Black Worker,” this program brings together episodes and histories of rebellion, riot, and resistance in interdependent struggles over wages, political rights, and everyday life.
Programmed by Yasmina Price