Working Man's Death & Still Lives
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Concordia University (Montreal)
Wednesday April 29, 2009
Screening begins 19h00
This special screening has been added to the CP Concordia Spring Programme as a special event in collaboration with Dazibao, a Montreal art gallery, for their exhibition, "Working Images" which runs from April 16th to May 30th.
The screening will take place in the DESEVE CINEMA, Concordia University (Library Building), 1455 deMaisonneuve, at 7PM.
For more information, visit the Dazibao site.
First Film:Working Man's Death
The extremes of survival for workers in the 21st century.
Michael Glawogger / Austria, Germany / 2005 / 122min / Pashtu, Yoruba, German, Ibo, Indonesian, Mandarin, Russian with English subtitles
The new film from the director of Megacities: 12 Stories of Survival.
Today's manual laborers are no longer celebrated with hymns of praise. They must be content with encouraging one another that backbreaking work is better than no work at all...
In the Ukraine, a group of men spend long days crawling through cramped shafts of illegal coal mines. Sulfur gatherers in Indonesia brave the smoky heat of an active volcano and the treacherous trip back down. Blood, fire and stench are routine for workers at a crowded open-air slaughterhouse in Nigeria. Pakistani men use little more than their bare hands to dismantle an abandoned oil tanker for scrap metal. Steelworkers in China fear they could be a dying breed...
Five portraits of heavy manual labor, increasingly less visible in our technological 21st Century.
Trailer
Credits
Written and directed by Michael GLAWOGGER
Creative consultant: Pepe DANQUART
Director of photography: Wolfgang THALER
Steadicam: Tilman BÜTTNER
Sound engineers: Paul OBERLE Ekkehart BAUMUNG
Editor: Mona WILLI
Line producer: Pepo WIRTHENSOHN
Producers: Erich LACKNER Mirjam QUINTE
Production: LOTUS-FILM GESMBH QUINTE FILM
Awards & Festivals
Awards:
2005:
Copenhagen International Dokumentar Film festival- CPH:DOX award for best feature documentary
British Film Institute- Grierson for best full length feature documentary
European Film Awards- nominated for best documentary
Leipzig International Film Festival- FIPRESCI-Jury Prize
GIJON- Special Jury Prize
Diagonale, Austria- Best Documentary Film Camera Work
FICCO (Mexico Contemporary Film Fest- Best Documentary
2006:
Yerevan International Film Festival- Golden Apricot for Best Documentary
2007:
Director's Guild of America nomination for "Outstanding Directoral Achievement"
German Film Awards- Gold Film Award for outstanding documentary
Film site & Reviews
Second Film: Still Lives
An experimental documentary that focuses on the rebuilding of post-Katrina New Orleans
Anna Sarkissian / Canada / 2007 / 12 min
More than a year after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, some neighbourhoods have turned into virtual wastelands. The highest price was paid by the most destitute. They lost everything: homes, possessions, sometimes even a family member whose body was never found. Relocated to trailers, they are waiting for the authorities or humanitarian associations to dig their houses out from the rubble and rebuild them.
This short film gives voice to the victims as well as to the volunteers, who wonder how useful they can be in the absence of a proper aid system. The filmmaker conveys a distinctive point of view in her almost surrealistic images of destroyed neighbourhoods. Like the volunteers who root through the ruins, she gleans memories from those whose lives were forever changed. - RIDM
Credits
Writing, directed & produced by
Anna Sarkissian
Images, sound & editing by
Anna Sarkissian
Featuring Creative Commons licensed audio
from The Freesound Project
090104F by Freed
Cminor7 by RealRhodesSound
pd_guitare by Bebeto
softerdrive by Patchen
spess by Dropthedyle
#8DE43D by Charel Sytze (not available)
tail 182 by Jovica
thunder-rumble by by Erdie
ThunderstormRemix by Fredgalist
windy lane by Mr Rolfi
French translation by
Sébastien Gauthier
Special thanks
Chris Webber
Bike and Build cyclists
New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity
The residents of New Orleans
Film site & Reviews
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