CinemaOSMovie · 2023 · 1h 21m

After Work

A thought-provoking film that looks at the phenomenon of work in the 21st century with the razor sharp X-ray vision and equally sharp humour. From Kuwait to Korea, from the US to Europe, and from nine to five.

64%(8)IMDbDocumentary

Kuwait’s constitution says that every person has the right to a job, so in some places 20 people are employed for one person’s job. In South Korea, they work so much that a policy has been introduced to turn off computers at the end of the day so that employees can’t work any more. In the US, they give up over 500 million holiday hours each year, while Amazon’s drivers are trying to form a union. Meanwhile, robots are poised to take over most jobs and put the rest of us out of work. Work is so crucial to our identity and what we spend our waking hours on that it is barely noticed anymore. A lot has happened since a group of Puritan priests invented the concept of work ethic in the 1600s, and in the 21st century the very concept of work is in many ways disintegrating. A perfect situation for a filmmaker like Swedish mastermind Erik Gandini, who travels the world to explore what the concept of work means today – if it means anything at all.

Directed byErik Gandini

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 21m
Language
EN
Released
August 4, 2023
Studios
Propaganda ItaliaFasad Production

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'After Work': first trailer for CPH:DOX world premiere

'After Work': first trailer for CPH:DOX world premiere

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Cast & crew

2 credited
Starring
Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Self

Yánis Varoufákis

Yánis Varoufákis

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Erik Gandini
Erik Gandini
Produced by
Jesper Kurlandsky

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