2nd edition of BOO International Short Film Festival | November 2–8 2026, Prague

Hardly Working

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ELBE DOCK Award
original title
Hardly Working
directed by
Total Refusal
year
2022
duration
20 minutes
country
Austria

A unique film shot solely in the setting of a computer game called Red Dead Redemption 2, amounts to ethnographic research into the work and everyday lives of NPCs (non-playable characters). A carpenter, a laundress, a stable hand and other characters are just digital extras in the background of the central story. But their work routines, patterns of activities as well as their errors and malfunctions draw a vivid analogy of the current form of capitalism.