Hardly Working

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Austria / 2022 / Animation, Documentary / 20’0”I2306076

Hardly Working
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SYNOPSIS

Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns

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