Hardly Working
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.
- Year: 2022
- Country: Austria
- Genre: Animation, Documentary
- Studio: 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
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- Director: Susanna Flock, Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel, Michael Stumpf
- Cast: A_F_M_ASBtownfolk_02, A_F_M_SDslums_02, A_M_M_NBXdockworkers_01, A_M_M_VALlaborer_01, Jacob Banigan