Written & Directed by Vogue Giambri Starring Dion Costelloe & Phillip Giambri Edited by Jack Hessler DP Brenden Babinski Sound by Javier Caso Costume by Sara Lukaszewski Key art by Kimberly Baldo Original Score by Caesar Bravo AD Chris Giambri Produced by Bebop Productions Shot on St Marks Place NYC
A group of young men forgo college to support themselves on OnlyFans as ‘masters,’ where thousands of clients consent to the kink and relinquish control over their finances, in a short documentary by Faye Tsakas and Enrique Pedráza-Botero.
The story behind the film: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-alpha-kings-practicing-financial-domination-online
Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
Jealous of the Sun’s stardom, the Moon bails into space in search of a planet that actually cares about him. Will he find his place in the universe, or is he destined to be a lonely loser forever?
Created by Eric Paperth & Tyler March Written and Directed by Eric Paperth & Tyler March Music and Lyrics by Rob Tanchum VO by Rob Tanchum, Stephanie Hsu, Eric Paperth, Tyler March, Aly March, and Clyde Avondale Art and Animation by Tyler March Puppet Sequence by Erin Pearce, Sevan Najarian, and George Metaxas Additional Instrumentation by Max Ash, Ben Ash, and Matt Wade Mixing and Mastering by Lucas Kozinski
