HARDLY WORKING
HARDLY WORKING


AUSTRIA | 2022 | DCP | ENGLISH | 21 | TOTAL REFUSAL

Director / Director: Total Refusal

Guión / Screenplay: Total Refusal

Productor / Producer: Total Refusal

Fotografía / Cinematography: Total Refusal

Edición / Editing: Total Refusal

Sonido / Sound: Total Refusal, Bernhard Zorzi

Musica / Music: Adrian Haim

Compañía Productora / Production Company: Lemonade Films

Reparto / Cast: Jacob Banigan, A_F_M_ASBtownfolk_02, A_F_M_SDslums_02, A_M_M_NBXdockworkers_01, A_M_M_VALlaorer_01


Sinopsis / Synopsis:

An ethnographic exploration of the work and life realities of non-player characters, the digital extras in video games. Their labour loops, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.

Biografía / Biography:

Total Refusal: Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Mllner, Michael Stumpf.
The pseudo-marxist media guerilla Total Refusal explores and practices strategies for artistic intervention in contemporary computer games. They work 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 (Diagonale20, Graz).

Festivales / Festivals:

Locarno International Film Festival - 2022, Switzerland

Contacto / Contact:

buero@totalrefusal.com
website: totalrefusal.com
LEMONADE FILMS
www.refreshingfilms.com
info@refreshingfilms.com