Audience award Audience award
Back to...

HARDLY WORKING HARDLY WORKING

  • 00:20
Austria 2022
Selection : EFA Shorts
Director: Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
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. Back to...

Sign up for Newsletter

European Film Festival Palić