Workers Leaving the Google Plex

Workers Leaving the Google Plex

Production country: 
us
Year: 
2011
Duration: 
11 min
Edition: 
2013
Format: 
film/video
© Andrew Norman Wilson
© Andrew Norman Wilson

Workers Leaving the GooglePlex investigates a top secret, marginalized class of workers at Google’s international corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley. As I documented the mysterious yellow badged “ScanOps” Google workers, I simultaneously chronicled the complex events surrounding my own dismissal from the company. The reference to the Lumière Brother’s 1895 film Workers Leaving the Factory situates the video within the history of motion pictures, suggesting both transformations and continuities in arrangements of labor, capital, media, and information.
 

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