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Location
Dryden Theatre
900 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
USA
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About this event
Unrest, the balance wheel of a mechanical timepiece as well as political action, is the apt title for this film’s connection of anarchism and watchmaking in late 19th-century Switzerland. It dramatizes young Pyotr Kropotkin’s 1872 visit to Saint-Imier, the center of Swiss watchmaking and site of the anti-authoritarian congress of anarchists—a visit he credits to his full turn to anarchism. While the small factory owners apply crude time and motion tests at the assumed Longines watch company, the recent rise of the telegraph, trains and photography enable the workers to connect with and support anarchists around the world. Shäublin’s own grandmother and great aunts set unrest wheels in this region. (Unrueh, Cyril Schäublin, Switzerland 2022, 93 min., DCP, German, Russian, French, and English with English subtitles)
A joint effort of the Dryden Theatre and the Rochester Labor Council, the Rochester Labor Film Series presents motion pictures celebrating workers around the world.