After Work
After Work
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Our society is a work society. From childhood we are taught to be result-oriented and competitive. As automation and artificial intelligence exceed human capacity, we will be forced to rethink the role work plays in our lives: the majority of jobs that exist today could vanish in a few decades. The debate about the consequences of this has been dominated by technology experts and economists and often painted as a sci-fi dystopia. What is absent is the human perspective, in the sense of a look at what this will mean to us as human beings.
"An important starting point for this project is the German philosopher Herbert Marcuse's distinction between one-dimensional thinking - to stick only to 'what is' - and two-dimensional thinking - to embrace also 'what could be'. Marcuse saw art as a key to bringing the second dimension to life in a time where rationalizations paved the way for the dominance of one-dimensional thinking. Or to escapism as a cure to the sort of alienation the modern life, consumption and tedious work brought. For Marcuse art has the duty to invite to imagining a better world. Not only to criticize it (as docs often do) or to distract from it." (Erik Gandini)
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CURRENTS
Directed by:
Erik Gandini
Country, year:
Sweden, Norway, Italy, 2023
Length:
81
Subtitles:
English,Slovenian
Language:
English, Korean, Italian, Arabic
Screening in cinema:
Fri, 15.03.2024
17:00
Kosovel Hall
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Tue, 19.03.2024
18:45
Kosovel Hall
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Filmography
Sacrificio: Who Betrayed Che Guevara (2001), Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers (2003), Gitmo (2005), Videocracy (2009), Švedska teorija ljubezni/The Swedish Theory of Love (2015), The Rebel Surgeon (2017)