Still Know Your Stones by Katerina Jazbec




Stills The Upcoming Polar Silk Road by Elena Mazzi



Still Factory to the Workers, Srđan Kovačević

A Work in Progress: unwriting labour, 2025

Some Fire to Melt These Icy Icy New Beginnings
Extrapool, Nijmegen (NL)
Film screening, workshop
Curated by Myriam Gras, with Julia Fidder and Xenia Tsompanidou, as part of Text my Sister

This program of independent short films explores the changing landscapes of labor, examining its shifting meanings, challenges, and possibilities in a rapidly changing world. Through experiment and work with a powerful imagination, this program examines the intersections of technology, identity, economy, ecology, and humanity, offering a multifaceted lens on what it means to work in an age of automation, precarity, and innovation.

From poetic narratives of the rhythms of manual labor to a speculative vision of future society, these films confront the beauty, complexity, and absurd contradictions of human endeavor. How is technology redefining the role of labor in our lives? Who benefits and who is left behind in the relentless drive for progress?

Text my Sister engages with audiences to reflect on the intimate and global stakes of labor in our collective past, present, and future.



Programme March 2nd:
Katerina Jazbec - Know Your Stones | 2023 | 21’
Elena Mazzi - The Upcoming Polar Silk Road | 2021| 9’45’’
Katalin Erdődi, Máté Kőrösi, Antje Schiffers & Orsolya Török-Illyés - Watermelon Republic / Dinnyeköztársaság | 2021 | 40’

Programme March 9th:
Srđan Kovačević – Factory to the Workers | 2021 | 105’

In Croatia in 2005, a machine tools factory was occupied by its workers. Since then, they have operated collectively, becoming the only successful example of a worker occupation in post-socialist Europe. Today, as they seek a new model of collective ownership, the microcosmic world of the factory clashes with the forces of the globalized market economy, having an increasingly brutal impact on wages and the organization of the factory, causing rising disaffection among the workers. 

The workers of the ITAS Factory are stakeholders of the film. 


This film screening was followed by a collective workshop + reading group
‘Darling, I don’t have a dream job. I do not dream of labour.’  Designed by Text my Sister