Project: Labor in a Single Shot 

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Video: Staying Alive, Conversation, Chi Town, A Barber's Zone

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Role: Director / Cinematographer / Editor

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Labour in a Single Shot aims to respond to and grapple with the specific characteristics of each of the project's 15 workshop cities and regions. In each city we see all kinds of labour going on every day: cobblers, cooks, waiters, window cleaners, nurses, tattoo-artists or garbage workers. But most of the work activities happen behind closed doors. Often labour is not only invisible but also unimaginable. Therefore it is vital to undertake research, to open one’s eyes and to set oneself into motion.

 

Where can we see which kinds of labor? What is hidden?

What happens in the centre of a city, what occurs at the periphery?

What is characteristic and what is unusual with regard to each city?

What kinds of labour processes set interesting cinematographic challenges?