23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

An evocation of the different meanings that the word tool may have for work and its evolution over the years and also for the role of the worker. Workers inside real factories, with heavy and traditional machinery. Real workers in fake companies performing real work, but which is also fictitious. Factories without people, only with machines. Workers who program artificial intelligence systems and report on the impact it has on work and everyday life.

Work Tools

May 01, Monday, 17:45 (77')

Cinema Ideal • C.283

Keep Shiftin’

Somewhere on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic, the employees of a glass factory work, delicately and precisely, the hot materials in hand. The muscular and tattooed bodies of the men mark the beat of a night shift.

2020, 21'

Non contractuel

A company that facilitates job training by unemployed people. A cynical look at the absurd world of capitalism and corporate work.

2015, 16'

Agrilogistics

The perfect automation of a greenhouse where the fruit is checked and sorted using machinery. Human presence serves to fix where the machine fails — straightening the crooked, planting the delicate, and tending to the machine, unable to take care of itself.

Gerard Ortin Castellvi

United Kingdom / Spain

2022, 21'

VO

Self-driving cars once seemed like a chimera, and these days it’s just a leap forward to something imminent. However, there is still a human side to the training of this kind of cars. On a night shift, the city and electronic data merge into a single landscape.

Nicolas Gourault

2021, 19'

Silvestre Focus

An evocation of the different meanings that the word tool may have for work and its evolution over the years and also for the role of the worker. Workers inside real factories, with heavy and traditional machinery. Real workers in fake companies performing real work, but which is also fictitious. Factories without people, only with machines. Workers who program artificial intelligence systems and report on the impact it has on work and everyday life.

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