Hardly Working
O.S. Short FilmsTotal Refusal29.10.2317:00 h Zumzeig Cinecooperatiu 8€
"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.
Biography
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.
Details
Duration: 20'
Direction: Total Refusal
Country: Austria
Language: English
Version: VOSE
Direction: Total Refusal
Country: Austria
Language: English
Version: VOSE
Metodology
Total Refusal is a pseudo-marxist media guerilla collective. Their films and performances were presented among others at Berlinale ‘20, Locarno 22 and at the MoMA in NYC and they have received more than 46 international and national awards and honorary mentions.
The current members of Total Refusal are: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner & Michael Stumpf