INTERNATIONAL SHORT DOX
Hardly Working
Directors
Total Refusal
Producers
Total Refusal
Cinematographers
Total Refusal
Animation
Total Refusal
Editors
Total Refusal
Sound
Total Refusal
Official Film Website
Contact
LEMONADE FILMS
Association for the Exploitation of Audiovisual Media
c/o Marija Milovanovic
Lindengasse 31-33/3/2
1070 Vienna
[email protected]
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2022
Austria
20 min
Color
Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
Director
The pseudo-marxist media guerilla Total Refusal explores and practices strategies for artistic intervention in contemporary computer games. It works with tools of appropriation and rededication of game resources. Their films and performances were presented among others at Berlinale ‘20 and at the MoMA in NYC and they recently received the award for the best Austrian short documentary (Diagonale’20, Graz).
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10 Aug @ 19:30
11 Aug @ 13:00
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