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.

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"The Street Sweeper"

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"The Laundress"

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"The Carpenter"

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"The Stable Hand"

Jacob Banigan

Narrator

Crew

Susanna Flock

Director, Writer, Script, Editor, Cinematography, Producer, Sound Recordist

Leonhard Müllner

Director, Writer, Script, Editor, Cinematography, Producer, Sound Recordist

Robin Klengel

Director, Writer, Script, Editor, Cinematography, Producer, Sound Recordist

Michael Stumpf

Director, Writer, Script, Editor, Cinematography, Producer, Sound Recordist, Translator

Bernhard Zorzi

Sound Designer, Additional Music

Adrian Jonas Haim

Music

Adina Camhy

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Mariša Milovanović

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Marcie K. Jost

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Felix Klee

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Karl Marx

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Lorenz Kabas

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Peter Zorn

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Franz-Josef Windisch-Graetz

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Mathieu Janssen

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Jona Kleinlein

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Lena Weiss

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