A factory gate opens, workers exit. Panopticon deconstructs this historical moment through super 8, revealing labor as a structured, inherited cycle. Control persists beyond the gate, in frames, rhythms, and repetitions. Like film constructs movement, labor loops through illusion, exit is just another entrance. Watching and being watched merge in this ongoing mechanism.
Onur Sekmen (he/them) is a Vienna-based media artist and filmmaker exploring themes of migration, liminality, gender and body politics through film and video. With a background in cinema, their recent work blends filmic and experimental forms to investigate working class realities, displacement and shifting identities. Sekmen’s practice is rooted in a cinematic language that deconstructs spatial and social structures, often engaging with political and historical residues in contested landscapes.
