Film Screening: UNREST (2022) at Yale

Taking its title from the “unrest wheel”—the ticking mechanism that animates mechanical clocks—Cyril Schäublin’s UNREST (UNRUEH) transports viewers to a small Swiss watchmaking village in 1877, where cutting-edge technologies like the photograph, telegraph, and pocket watch are remaking work and life. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time, and labor, Josephine, a young factory worker, gets involved with the local movement of anarchist watchmakers, where she meets Russian traveler Pyotr Kropotkin. For all the quiet beauty of a film shot in the natural light of the Saint-Imier valley, UNREST reenacts this moment of technological and political change as a provocation to reflect on our present.

This screening will also feature a short film: 

FAKE FRUIT FACTORY (DCP, 1986, directed by Chick Strand, Mexico and United States, 22 minutes, Spanish and English with English subtitles)