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
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 ...
Burning Out
Released on: 2016-11-18
Documentary, Drama
Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le...
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...
Money as Debt
Released on: 2006-01-01
Documentary, Animation
Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective...
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...
The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
Released on: 2014-10-03
Documentary, History
A documentary about the development and spread of the virtual currency called Bitcoin.
Philip K Dick: A Day in the Afterlife
Released on: 1994-04-09
Documentary
A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over ...
LSD: The Beyond Within
Released on: 1986-01-01
Documentary
This refreshingly frank and impartial study of the discovery and development of the notorious halluc...
Let's Make Money
Released on: 2008-10-30
Documentary
Let’s Make Money is an Austrian documentary by Erwin Wagenhofer released in the year 2008. It is abo...
How to Win the Loser's Game
Released on: 2014-10-31
Documentary, History
Sensible Investing's landmark documentary contains interviews with some of the biggest names and bri...
Laboratory Greece
Released on: 2019-12-08
Documentary, History
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the curr...
The Assembly
Released on: 2024-04-05
Documentary
Michael Sheen faces the interview of a lifetime with The Assembly, a group of autistic, neurodiverge...
Refugis de paper
Released on: 2025-07-29
Documentary
In a world that spins faster and faster, bibliomaniacs take refuge from the rush and the noise insid...
Messengers
Released on: 2025-04-09
Documentary
A poetic exploration of three subterranean telescopes in remote regions of Canada, Japan, and Antarc...
Being 97
Released on: 2018-01-20
Documentary
Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality bega...
Glass Life
Released on: 2021-09-01
Documentary
A dynamic configuration of images and videos overlaid with musings on human existence.
Tawai: A Voice from the Forest
Released on: 2017-09-29
Documentary
Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand hum...
Money on the Street: The Making of Uncut Gems
Released on: 2020-03-10
Documentary
A behind the scenes look at Uncut Gems (2019) by the Safdie Brothers with interviews from the cast a...
In These Parkas We Can Only Be Warm
Released on: 2023-02-01
Documentary
Two parka-adorned silhouettes engage in a barely-audible conversation about Snapchat, grades, money,...