70th edition. From 24 October to 1 November 2025.
70th edition.
24 Oct./1 Nov. 2025
2022 – 67th Edition
Official section - Short films

Hardly Working

Total Refusal
Austria
 - 2022

‘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 as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.

DIRECTOR
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SCREENPLAY
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CINEMATOGRAPHY
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EDITOR
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SOUND
Total Refusal, Bernhard Zorzi
MUSIC
Adrian Haim
PRODUCTION
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CAST
A_F_M_ASBtownfolk_02, A_F_M_SDslums_02, A_M_M_ NBXdockworkers_01, A_M_M_VALlaorer_01
RUNNING TIME
20 min.
NARRADOR
Jacob Banigan
TYPE
Cortometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2022
COUNTRY
Austria
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