The Last Job on Earth
Synopsis:
“Machines could take 50% of jobs in the next 30 years”: Moshe Vardi, Professor of computer science, Rice University Meet Alice, holder of the last recognisable job on Earth, trying to make sense of her role in an automated world. ‘The Last Job on Earth’ is a film produced in collaboration with the Guardian Sustainable Business section. See the full article on The Guardian theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/feb/17/automation-may-mean-a-post-work-society-but-we-shouldnt-be-afraid
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Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole. Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector. Responding to a hand-drawn soundtrack, each projection is individually created by painting and scratching directly on 16mm film stock.
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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You see a girl or you don’t. But at least you know she is afraid of touching people. Now she is going on a journey to overcome her fear from the past to the present, from pain to relief. Running across the snow, hiding in an apartment and going to the sea.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The story of Alan, an ordinary fish that one day starts to wonder what lies above the surface.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Non-narrative
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A group of creatures are abducted from their natural habitat.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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On an everyday train journey quite unlike any other, a not-so-casual observer goes to extreme lengths to avoid other passengers, a giant baby runs away from his parents, a romantic woman starts an ill-fated relationship with a cuckoo, and a naïve boy discovers that some problems can’t be fixed by pictures of unicorns.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Experimental
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A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A little green bird called Bobby is looking for his butter, his partner Betty and for the love that seems to have melted away.
- Comedy
- Romance
- Drama
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A woman is getting erotically charged by a man’s chain necklace. However, she gets quickly confronted by these feelings with an aggression – followed by a weird chain of actions. Has someone been crazy?
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Musical
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Incorporating Inari’s trademark style and intriguing outlook on life, her film peels all the flimflam off toxic masculinity and reveals the bare reality behind it.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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In Don’t Buy Milk by Julian Gallese, we see a whimsical portrait of a small dairy town and the daily life of its unusual residents.
- Comedy
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Two drunk girls accidentally stumble into a crime scene.
- Crimi
- Drama
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This is going to make you feel uncomfortable.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative