Friday, May 23, 2014

Workingman's Death

documentary   Michael Glawogger

An extraordinary doc on work in the 21st century. We focus on five disparate groups:

-miners operating an illegal coal mine in Ukraine...mostly working on their backs in seams two feet thick.
-Indonesian men who climb into the belly of an active volcano, collect slabs of sulfur and carry them out.
-butchers slaughtering animals in a filthy open-air abattoir in coastal Nigeria.
-Pakistani ship breakers dismantling huge tankers with ropes and hand tools
-Chinese workers in a modern-day steel mill.

Imaginative, close-up camera work put us right in the scene. After seeing this most people should never complain about their jobs again.

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