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Work Songs

April 23, 2020 7:30pm – 10:00pm

Mark Street, 2018, 68 min.

A longshorewoman in San Pedro, CA bemoans the decline of unions, a cab driver in Pittsburgh talks about a drunk customer who asked him to drive to Boston, an organic farmer talks about evolving marketing strategies, a t-shirt factory in North Carolina comes to life as the day progresses.

Work Songs explores various jobs throughout the country. The film asks the viewer to think about technological advances, economics and how work may create (or stifle) meaning in people’s lives. This film investigates some old and threatened jobs teetering on the edge of extinction as well as some new professions we couldn’t have imagined a few years ago.

Work Songs moves between ideas, locales and investigations of jobs.  I’ve planned some interviews and asked deliberate, researched questions; I’ve also asked passersby off the cuff about their work: a lively mix. Each section reveals a different aspect of our evolving relationship to labor, and allows the viewer to reflect on her own negotiation of economic concerns, satisfaction and a larger social good.

Tickets: $12

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Location
Maysles Documentary Center 
343 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York NY 10027 US

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