August 10, 2024
6:00 p.m.
Lac-Brome Theater

August 11, 2024
9:00 a.m.
Lac-Brome Center

Erik Gandini

English and Italian, French subtitles
Feature film
Documentary / In competition
Classification: General
81 minutes

Presented in collaboration with Cinéma sous les étoiles de Funambules Médias.

Documentary. Sweden, Italy, Norway. 2023

Our society is a work society. From childhood we are taught to be result oriented and competitive. As automation and artificial intelligence exceed human capacity, we will be forced to rethink the role work plays in our lives: the majority of jobs that exist today could vanish in a few decades. The debate about the consequences of this has been dominated by technology experts and economists and often painted as a sci-fi dystopia. What is absent is the human perspective, in the sense of a look at what this will mean to us as human beings. With characters and narratives across four continents, the film seeks an existential answer to what work means today, what things could be like in the future and what will happen to us when we don’t work.

Followed by a discussion with Erik Gandini

Awards

Chicago International Film Festival : 2023 Candidat Gold Hugo. Best Documentary
CPH:DOX : 2023 Candidat CPH:DOX Award. DOX:AWARD
Visions du Réel International Film Festival Nyon : 2023 Candidat Audience Award. Grand Angle Competition
One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival : 2023 Candidat Best Film Award. International Competition
Docville : 2023 Candidat Jury Award. Best Topics Documentary

Erik Gandini

Erik Gandini is an Italian-Swedish film director, writer, and producer and professor of documentary film at Stockholm University of the Arts. He has produced and directed numerous internationally acclaimed documentaries including Surplus – Terrorized into Being Consumers which won the Main Prize at IDFA 2003 and was screened at over 70 festivals around the world. Videocracy was shown at the Venice Film Festival, Toronto IFF, IDFA in 2009 and was nominated for a DOX:AWARD at CPH:DOX. In 2015, The Swedish Theory of Love premiered at the Stockholm International Film Festival and went on a successful international festival tour (CPH:DOX, IDFA) and was theatrically released in many territories. He produced The Raft by Marcus Lindeen which won numerous international awards, e.g. the main competition
at CPH:DOX in 2018.