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World Festival of Animated Film /
5 to 10 June 2023
World Festival of Animated Film / 5 to 10 June 2023
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Hardly Working / Hardly Working

WORLD PANORAMA 3

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Hardly Working / Hardly Working


Total Refusal

Austria / 2022 / 20' 30''



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Wednesday, 07. 06.,
Cinema SC, 11:00 h
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Thursday, 08. 06.,
Theatre &TD, 22:00 h


Synopsis


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.

Total Refusal


The pseudo-Marxist media guerrilla 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 (Diagonale’20, Graz). The current members of Total Refusal are: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner and Michael Stumpf.

 

Director

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Production

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Screenplay

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Storyboard

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Compositing

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Sound

Bernhard Zorzi


Music

Adrian Haim


Editing

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Animation

Rockstar Games


categories

WORLD PANORAMA 3