This Progress Mining Company is hanging by a thread and may need some construction work done, but in the meantime, a new staff member arrives to be introduced and start his job. One of his duties is to feed the monster.
The Progress Mining Company is on the verge of collapse and important decisions have to be made. Mary believes that the mine should be closed for repairs but the suggestion is not well received: ‘Do you want to be right or do you want to do the right thing?’. It’s up to Nick, the veteran worker who has already assimilated the absurdity of the system, to stick to the routine, not to ask questions and, above all, to ignore Sector 3. It is he who guides If, the newly arrived worker, to the door of the enigmatic sector and gets him in. The essential map of the sector is forgotten, but the recommendation is assertive: ‘Don’t pay attention to anything unusual.’ In a surreal visual and sound style, this animation invites the viewer to enter a more interpretive and sensitive state. To do this, Gabriel Bohmer opts for a kind of homemade cubism, in stop motion through an assembly of cut-outs and small objects. In an aesthetic that adopts imperfections as an essential part of its language, the style works as a tool to deconstruct the normative logics of labour, production and progress. (Margarida Moz)
