Seven artists and cultural workers talk about work and life in an utopian state of society. How is work organized? What is work? Is there work? And how could we work together?

Experimental Documentary, HD, 55min.

Screenings:

Premiered at One World Berlin Human Rights Festival, Oktober 2017

FEM-Power: WORK.Work.work. Prekäre Arbeitsverhältnisse im Kunst- und Kulturbetrieb, Burg Giebichenstein Halle 2.05.2018

Aktionstag #wessenfreiheit, HGB Leipzig, 5.06.2018

Long Night of Filmfestivals, Kino Zukunft Berlin, 18.08.2018

Screening und Gespräch mit MdL (SN) Claudia Maicher, kulturpolitische Sprecherin der Fraktion Bündnis 90/Grüne: Zukunftsperspektiven von Künstlerinnen in Sachsen, Luru Kino Leipzig, 5.03.2019

In the 21st century work is continually individualized to fit the neoliberal market. Artists were part of the „avantgarde“ of this development.

Starting out from a contemporary Berlin Co-working Space the director sets out to explore utopian forms of work. She thus travels to distant utopian societies to talk to people who mainly work artistically and culturally. We both hear them talk about their individual utopian work conditions and see them in a first meeting to develop a common work Utopia.
Living and working in Utopia – what could that be like for an individual and for a fictional society?

A fictional documentary on utopias that seem impossible, but have the potential to unfold if only we believed in their possibility.

With: Paula Bulling, Hanna Bergfors and Kornelia Kugler, Konstanze Schmitt and Bini Adamczak, Markues, Noam Gorbat, Kathrin Lemcke

Also with: Filmische Initiative Leipzig (FILZ)

Director: Kathrin Lemcke

Assisting Director: Jana Keuchel

Project Consultants: Bettina Ellerkamp, Merle Kröger, Sarah Charalambides

Cinematography: Jonas Römmig, Jana Keuchel, Kathrin Lemcke, Juliane Jaschnow

Art Director: Daniela Grömke

Sound and Sound-Design: Claus Störmer

Music: Manuela Schininá

Lighting: Karl Konrad Pompe, Stephan Helmut Beier, Jonas Römmig, Maurice Wilkerling

Catering: Mayan Printz

Editing: Kathrin Lemcke

Graphic Design: Franziska Stübgen

Sound Mix: Florian Marqart

Color Correction: André Winkler, digim

Produced in the Framework of the Professional Media Master Class (PMMC) Lab, werkleitz – Zentrum für Medienkunst

The PMMC Lab was funded by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt and the European Social Fund.

A FILZ Production