Hardly Working

An ethnographic exploration of the work and daily life of non-player characters, the digital extras in video games. Their labor loops, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.

Animation Documentary

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("The Street Sweeper")

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("The Laundress")

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("The Carpenter")

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("The Stable Hand")

Jacob Banigan

(Narrator)