An evening with visual artist and researcher belit sağ and Assistant Professor Aslı Özgen featuring a screening of Workers Leaving the Factory (1995) by Harun Farocki, followed by sağ’s visual reading performance Migrant Women Workers Entering the Factory (2025–2026).

In Workers Leaving the Factory, Farocki centers the space outside the factory gates — where workers enter, leave, gather, and “become visible as a social group” — through a meticulous reading of their visual representation throughout the history of cinema. In Migrant Women Workers Entering the Factory, sağ approaches intimacy as an urgent lens through which to uncover layers of memory, ways of remembering, narration, and the positionality of the maker. Drawing on archival images from a 1978 labour dispute involving migrant women workers from Turkey in Veghel, a small town in the southeast of the Netherlands.

Following both works, Aslı Özgen and belit sağ will discuss audiovisual heritage, the visibility of labour and its aesthetics in the history of cinema and alternative moving image practices, relationality and contemporaneity of both works on the background of anti-migration laws, anti-gender movements, and rising fascism in these lands and in the world.


belit sağ (she/they) is a visual artist, researcher and educator. She studied audiovisual arts and mathematics in Ankara; visual arts and comparative literature in Amsterdam. They were an artist in residence at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2014/2015, Amsterdam) and International Studio and Curatorial Program (2016, 2019, NYC).

Aslı Özgen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, teaching in the BA Media and Culture and in the MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image. 

This evening is part of Systems for Agitation: A Harun Farocki Retrospective bringing together a selection of Farocki’s films and installations, alongside a series of collaborative events from 17 April to 24 May.