After Work (2023)
• August 4th, 2023 • 1h 21min
Documentary
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Spellbound
Released on: 2002-03-14
Documentary
This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scrip...
American Hardcore
Released on: 2006-09-22
Documentary, Music
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documen...
America: Freedom to Fascism
Released on: 2006-01-01
Documentary
This is a documentary about an honest search for the truth about the Federal Reserve Bank and the le...
Magic Money: The Bitcoin Revolution
Released on: 2017-01-25
Documentary
What is Bitcoin? With the advent of Bitcoin, the world's first digital currency, for the first time ...
Sicko
Released on: 2007-05-18
Documentary, Comedy, Drama
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make p...
The Spectre of Marxism
Released on: 1983-10-15
History, Documentary
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
Take the World From Another Point of View
Released on: 1973-01-01
Documentary
In 1973 Yorkshire public television made a short film of the Nobel laureate while he was there. The ...
Attention danger travail
Released on: 2003-10-08
Documentary
With the energy of the dying, those in power apply themselves to reasserting the value of work – wit...
The Ascent of Money
Released on: 2008-11-17
History, Documentary
British historian and author Niall Ferguson explains how big money works today as well as the causes...
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey
Released on: 2000-10-22
Documentary, Action
Documentary on the legendary martial artist Bruce Lee, with a focus on the production of his unfinis...
The Money Masters
Released on: 1996-01-01
History, Documentary
A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the...
Examined Life
Released on: 2008-09-05
Documentary
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the stre...
Capitalism: A Love Story
Released on: 2009-09-06
Documentary, History
Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impa...
A Propos D'Un Crime
Released on: 1967-01-01
Documentary
In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. ...
Conversation with Myself
Released on: 1972-01-01
Documentary
Alan Watts talks about our perception of the world, and how we derive metaphysics from it. Watts rec...
Work as Play
Released on: 1973-01-01
Documentary
Alan Watts discusses the Western dichotomy of work and play, and explains that when you take the pla...
Salaryman
Released on: 2021-11-18
Documentary
Tokyo work culture's most compelling and complex protagonist; the Salaryman. A nameless, voiceless, ...
Free Will? A Documentary
Released on: 2023-01-31
Documentary
Free Will? A Documentary is an in-depth investigation featuring world renowned philosophers and scie...
Inside Job
Released on: 2010-10-08
Documentary, Crime
A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial melt...