Documentary Film Screening “Work hard, Play hard”
Wed 07 Sep 2016, 7 pm
Goethe Institut
From Goethe Institut:
Documentary about the modern workplace from Carmen Losmann, 2011. Producer Erik Winker introduces the film and talks to the audience.
The Documentary “Work Hard — Play Hard” provides an unusual insight into the organizational structure of numerous companies and exposes the basic concept of modern working environment. The desire to maximize profits and gain unlimited economic growth has led to the so-called “Human Resource Management”. Perfect offices without usual office characteristics and a workplace that isn’t considered as a workplace anymore but rather perceived as a leisure center are supposed to optimize the employee’s work performance.
After detailed research director Carmen Losmann shows in her debut feature film how boundaries between work and privacy slowly disappear and offers an outlook on the future of work in times of postindustrial service economy.
Erik Winker, born in 1973 in Stuttgart, Germany, studied Communication Science, Film Science, Education and TV Production in Münster, Berlin and Manchester. Later he did his postgraduate studies in Film Direction at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne producing his first feature-length documentary film Solo Ultra. While studying, he regularly had jobs as an assistant director in documentary productions, e.g. for Andres Veiel (Die Spielwütigen / Performing Like Crazy) and Solveig Klaßen (Jenseits von Tibet / Out of Tibet). Since 2007 he works as a freelance director and producer. Besides that, he also teaches documentary film making at Salzburg University and Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.
Language: German with English and Vietnamese subtitles
Free admission
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