Harun Farocki has often emphasized the industrial, machine-like function of the camera. Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades (2006) is a horizontal suite of twelve monitors that delves into each decade of film history, beginning with images of late 19th century workers recorded by the Lumière Brothers and including similar scenes from Metropolis (1926), Modern Times (1936), Red Desert (1964), through to Dancer in the Dark (2000).