Ho Rui An / Singapore, España / 25′ / 2023

Between 2013 and 2014, a surveillance camera was secretly installed in front of the factory gate of a Chinese company which had been recently listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In In 24 Cinematic Points of View of a Factory Gate in China, the surveillance footage is resituated within a genealogy that extends back to the Lumieres’ seminal film showing workers walking out of a factory gate. As narrated by a fictional filmmaker who has been approached by an unnamed American investor to review the footage through a “cinematic point of view”, the film spans over a century of European, American and Chinese cinema to examine how the Revolution, which returned the country’s factories to its workers, has culminated in a scene of their near disappearance.

Concept and direction by Ho Rui An
Sound di by Zai Tang

Ho Rui An
Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. Through lectures, essays and films, his research examines the relations between labour, technology and capital across different systems of governance in a global age. He has presented projects at the Shanghai Biennale; Bangkok Art Biennale; Gwangju Biennale; Jakarta Biennale; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien; Singapore Art Museum; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Japan.