Hardly Working

Director: Total Refusal: Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf Country: Austrija Year: 2022 Length: 21' Genre: documentary Screenplay: Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf Cinematography: Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf Editing: Robin Klengel Music: Adrian Haim Sound design: Bernhard Zorzi Production company: Total Refusal Appearing: Jacob Banigan

Non-playable characters in video games are digital Sisyphus machines that have no perspective of breaking out of their activity loops. In the moments when the algorithm shows inconsistencies, the NPCs break out of the logic of total normality, and appear touchingly human.