Zagreb Film Festival

Hardly Working

  • Total Refusal (Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf)
  • Austria
  • 2022
  • 20'

            *The program will screen at Dokukino KIC

             

            Hardly Working explores the work and life realities of NPCs – the non-player characters in video games that populate the digital world as extras to create the impression of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper, a carpenter – they are Sisyphean machines whose work routines and activity patterns, as well as bugs and malfunctions, paint a vivid analogy of work under capitalism. Winner of the Pardi di domani Best Direction Award and Junior Jury Award at Locarno.

             

            Subtitles: EN, HR

             

            Total Refusal (Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf)

            The pseudo-Marxist guerilla arts collective Total Refusal explores and practices strategies for artistic intervention in contemporary video games. They employ tools of appropriation and redistribution of game resources. Their award-winning films and performances have been presented among others at Berlinale, Locarno and at the MoMA in NYC.

            Hardly Working

            Director
            Total Refusal (Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf)
            Screenplay
            Total Refusal
            DOP
            Total Refusal
            Editing
            Total Refusal
            Producer
            Total Refusal
            Production
            Total Refusal
            Festivals & Awards
            Vienna Shorts – Special Jury Prize for Best Sound; Locarno Film Festival – Pardi di domani Best Direction Award, Junior Jury Award

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