Work Hard,  Play Hard

Work Hard, Play Hard

Work Hard, Play Hard

2011, Germany, 90' & 52', Carmen Losmann

Synopsis

A film about non-territorial office space, multi-mobile knowledge workers, Blackberries and Miles&More. A road movie discovering the working world of tomorrow. This documentary will take you on a journey through the post-industrial knowledge and services workshops, our supposed future working place. In this new world work will be handled more liberally. Time clocks cease to exist. Attention is not compulsory any more. The resource “human“ comes into focus. The film closely follows the high-tech work force – people who are highly mobile and passionate to make their work their purpose in life. Further episodes resume this topic and lead into the world of modern office architecture and into the world of Human Resource Management.

”An account based in reality – cold as ice” – DOK Leipzig

‘Carmen Losmann has succeeded in making a film that’s both thematically and artistically striking. We’re confronted with the uncomfortable question of how we are going to deal with such a world and how we want to continue living in it” – DOK Leipzig

World Premiere - DOK Leipzig 2011 (International Competition), FIPRESCI Award - DOK Leipzig 2011, Award of the Ecumenical Jury - DOK Leipzig 2011, Healthy Workplaces Award - DOK Leipzig 2011, Golden Key Award - Kassel Documentary Festival 2011, It's All True 2012, Special Mention - Documentary Edge New Zealand 2012, Visions du Reel 2012, Crossing Europe 2012, World Pulse - Indie Lisboa 2012, Main competition for Millenium award - Planete Doc Film Festival 2012, Jerusalem International Film Festival 2012, FID Marseille, Festival de films de femmes de Bruxelles, Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy, DMZ DOC, Antenna Film Festival, Festival du Cinéma Allemand Paris, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Doc Point Helsinki, Doc Point Tallin, Millenium IFF Belgium