Country: Austria
Year: 2022
Language: English
Subtitles: Spanish
Runtime: 21 mins.
Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the 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 labor routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
DIRECTOR
Total Refusal
Total Refusal is a media guerilla that explores and practices strategies for artistic intervention in video games. Their films and performances were presented at Berlinale 2020 and the NYC MoMa.
Director:
Total Refusal
Cinematography:
Production:
Total Refusal
Screenplay:
Total Refusal
Editing:
Total Refusal
Music:
Adrian Haim
Sound:
Bernhard Zorzi
Art Direction:
Total Refusal
Animation:
Rockstar Games
contacto: info@refreshingfilms.com
Screenings
León
22.7.2023
15:00 (Horario CST)
Auditorio Mateo Herrera 
San Miguel de Allende
24.7.2023
16:00 (Horario CST)
Teatro Santa Ana