When will machines fully replace the human workforce? eight hours is a documentary that examines a single day of production inside a dry cleaning factory. The film investigates the interaction between humans and machines, where the worker's experience of simple repetitive labor is mirrored by the mechanical work of the factory robots. We explore an overlooked location full of colors, mechanical sounds, humans and machines.
Jury comment on winning "Short in Work" in Modena 2017:
For the capability to use the features of observational documentary. For the ability to turn the everyday gestures of a laundry into a sort of mechanical choreography. To have fostered our methodological reflection.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:
"Winner" Short on Work Film Contest,
Modena (ITA), 2017
"Best Graduate Film" Diamond Screen Film Festival, Philadelphia (USA), 2017
"Official Selection" Lux et Lex Student Film Festival, Lancaster (USA)
SCREENINGS:
HafenKunstKino, Düsseldorf, Germany (EU), 17th of October 2018
Enessimo Film Festival, Bologna, Italy (EU), 12th of April 2018
Short on Work Film Contest, Modena, Itlay (EU), 15th of December 2017
Diamond Screen Film Festival, Philadelphia (US), 1st of May 2017
Everything Must Go (Exhibition), Philadelphia (US), 25th of April 2017
Lux et Lex Film Festival, Lancaster (US), 22nd of April 2017
Temple Contemporary Gallery, Philadelphia (US), 19th of April 2017
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (US), 4th of March 2017