AFTP Film Fest: Unrest

​"Automation for the People" is a Embassy residency program for provocation and prefiguration about how technology can serve the common good. Fellows engage in self-directed projects, discussion and research on topics in this broad range, and Embassy serves as a porous container to catalyze spontaneous collaboration and inspiration.

​As part of this residency, we will be hosting a series of five films relating to collectivism, technology, and relationality, to inform and inspire the direction of our work.

The first entry in the <AFTP> Film Fest is Unrest (2022, Switzerland):

New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labor, she gets involved with the local anarchist movement.

The full schedule is as follows:

• ​Unrest (Wed August 19, 7:30pm)

• ​After Yang (Wed August 26, 7:30pm)

• ​Neptune Frost (Wed September 2, 7:30pm)

• ​Manufactured Landscapes (Wed September 9, 7:30pm)

• ​All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Wed September 16, 7:30pm)