Hardly Working

Hardly Working

2022 · 21 min · ★ 6.7 · Animation, Documentary

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.

Directed by Susanna Flock · Written by Leonhard Müllner

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A_F_M_ASBtownfolk_02 "The Street Sweeper"
A_F_M_SDslums_02 "The Laundress"
A_M_M_NBXdockworkers_01 "The Carpenter"
A_M_M_VALlaborer_01 "The Stable Hand"
Jacob Banigan Narrator

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