From the Woes of Work to Autonomy

The End of the Endless

"Fim do Sem Fim" is a feature-length documentary that has as its backdrop the imminent disappearance of certain trades and professions in Brazil. Shot

2001

Musician

Common sense says you can't make a living in America playing avant-garde improvisational jazz. But Ken Vandermark does it anyway. Among musicians, Va

2007

Island Shunters

Short documentary on the shunters in the Darling Island, Sydney, Australia railyard. Filmed in 1977.

1977

Font Men

You've never heard of Jonathan Hoefler or Tobias Frere-Jones but you've seen their work. They run the most successful and respected type design studio

2014

Takumi: A 60,000 Hour Story on the Survival of Human Craft

There is a popular theory that it takes at least 10,000 hours of focused practice for a human to become expert in any field. In Japan, there are craft

2019

Two Sisters

Violeta and Vyollca Dukay live in the south of Kosovo, close to the border with Albania. Faced with a very high unemployment in their country since th

2002

Haus und Hof

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East Germany

1980

Keep Up the Good Work

It is a fetish, a mantra, a secret religion to modern man: work. In times of the financial crisis and massive job reductions, this documentary movie q

2013

The Happy Worker - Or How Work Was Sabotaged

Our premise is that work has become an act of self-sabotage. Empty corporate jargon, ever-changing management fashions and self-serving bureaucracy ma

2022

Clean

When illness forces her away from her beloved trauma cleaning business, Sandra Pankhurst faces up to her traumatic past and begins a search for her bi

2022

Travail à mort

Tiny Things

The life and work of a retired model maker.

2024

Les fils de la terre

2012

Faber

2019

Workplace

Workplace is a documentary made by Gary Hustwit, in association with R/GA, for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.Workplace is about the past, pres

2016

EL SITE

Isaac, a failed actor and Skies employee, shows us the daily life of workers in an average call center, facing the boredom to get to the end of the wo

2024

Working Women

Stylized with dramatic interiors and a distorted frame rate, this early documentary miniature from Szulkin depicts six sequences of solitary, repetiti

1978

The Problems of Work

Life is composed of seven-tenths work, one-tenth familial, one-tenth political and one-tenth relaxation. Here, the, is Scientology applied to that cru

2010

Handbook of Movie Theaters’ History

Handbook of Movie Theaters’ History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in the ci

2019

The Void Inside

After getting caught in a fight, Vahid needs to sell one of his kidneys to avoid a prison sentence of many years. While waiting for the liberating cal

2020