Directors | Total Refusal / Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
Script | Total Refusal / Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
Directors of photography | Total Refusal / Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
Editing | Total Refusal / Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
Animator | Rockstar games
Sound designer | Bernhard Zorzi
Composer | Adrian Haim
Producers | Total Refusal / Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
Production company | Total Refusal
Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.