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Werker Collective
A Moving History of the Young Worker
Workshop and Film Night
05.10 and 10–11.10.2026
A Moving History of the Young Worker
Workshop and Film Night
05.10 and 10–11.10.2026
A Moving History of the Young Worker is a film installation examining the labor movement from a queer perspective, tracing depictions of the worker's body across political contexts.
Begun in 2018 with a queer cine-club in Warsaw, it assembles fragments via Eisenstein's montage technique, structured by the 'five K's' that per anarchist Domela Nieuwenhuis oppress the worker: church, king, capital, army, pub. At Ca'Buccari, Werker expands this research toward Italian workers' cinema through two workshops and a concluding cine-club with artist talk.
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Taking inspiration from Der Vereinigung der Arbeiter-Fotografen (the association of worker photographers), a group of politicized photo-clubs that emerged in Germany in the 1920s, WERKER follows in the footsteps of the first socialist photography experiments in the USSR, which extended to Europe, the United States, and Japan. Their methods revolved around self-representation, image critique, self-publishing, collective authorship, and counter-archiving.
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