AnimationDocumentary

Hardly Working

6.7(3)202221mEN

Directed by Susanna Flock

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.

Cast

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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