ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the role of the web catalogue in Labour in a Single Shot. Drawing on scholarship on interactive nonfiction media, it treats the catalogue as a dynamic system, open to user activity and susceptible to change. Rather than focus on the individual documentaries housed in the catalogue, Navarro takes a relational approach to the web project, thus echoing the collaborative, transnational history of Labour in a Single Shot. The chapter also finds parallels between the catalogue and other works by Harun Farocki. It describes the user’s interaction with the web project as a form of reading that is qualitatively different from a casual viewing of the documentary materials.