Hardly Working

Name: Hardly Working
Director: Susanna Flock
Genre: Animation, Documentary
Released: 2022-08-03
Duration: 21 min
Rating: 0
Cast: A_F_M_ASBtownfolk_02, A_F_M_SDslums_02, A_M_M_NBXdockworkers_01, A_M_M_VALlaborer_01, Jacob Banigan

Directed by Susanna Flock

Animation

Documentary

20220h 21m

Overview

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