Take This Job

Either you’ll appreciate your job more or you’ll be ready to give your boss the what-for after seeing this collection of short films about the necessary evil of work and its impact on our identities.

SHOWTIMES:
Fri Apr 27 6:00 PM - Landmark 3 (IMM Screening room)

Sun Apr 29, 10:00 PM -  Landmark 3(IMM Screening room)

BREAD
Guatamala (Director: Marcelo Bukin, 4 minutes)
Edwin and Edson are brothers who work with their father in a stone quarry. They share their hopes for a future as their father fights to give them the education he never had.

HAPPINESS
U.S. (Director: Sophie Barthes, 11 minutes)
One evening, after work, a Polish immigrant buys a box of happiness in a strange store, but is unsure what to do with it in this deadpan comedy featuring Polish screen legend Elzbieta Czyewska.

THE LABORER
Japan (Director: Darryl Knickrehm, 20 minutes)
A harried businessman has the chance to take a step back and look at his life, only to see that it’s all been too much work .

NEVEL IS THE DEVIL
U.S. (Director: Peter Craig, 12 minutes)
2004 Grand Jury Prize winner for Best Short Film (The Climactic Death of Dark Ninja), Peter Craig returns with Nevel is the Devil, a comedy about a supervisor in a consumer products testing lab who must interrogate two employees he suspects of pulling off a devilish prank.

PLAN F
U.S. (Director: Casey Hayward, 23 minutes)
At the age of 20, Ed Marko went blind. Plan F follows Ed at his auto-repair shop in this documentary about the necessity of reinventing one’s life when “Plan A” is no longer viable.

THE SUBSTITUTE
Italy (Director: Andrea Jublin, 15 minutes)
A class full of students discover that there’s something strange about their substitute teacher in this clever comedy.

VARTAN LLP
U.S. (Director: Myles Price, 18 minutes)
One phone call shakes a powerful Wall Street businessman to his very core.