Hardly Working

Hardly Working
2022
⏱️ 21 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
AnimationDocumentary
An ethnographic exploration of the work and daily life of non-player characters, the digital extras in video games. Their labor loops, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.

Cast

A_F_M_ASBtownfolk_02
A_F_M_ASBtownfolk_02
"The Street Sweeper"
A_F_M_SDslums_02
A_F_M_SDslums_02
"The Laundress"
A_M_M_NBXdockworkers_01
A_M_M_NBXdockworkers_01
"The Carpenter"
A_M_M_VALlaborer_01
A_M_M_VALlaborer_01
"The Stable Hand"
Jacob Banigan
Jacob Banigan
Narrator

Crew

Director
Susanna Flock, Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel
Writer
Leonhard Müllner, Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel
Producer
Robin Klengel, Susanna Flock, Michael Stumpf

Production

Total Refusal, Kunsthaus Graz, Land Steiermark, department 9 - Culture, Europe, Ext. Relations, Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, European Media Art Platform, Creative Europe Media