Hardly Working
2022
21 minutes
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.
Top 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