Arabic, Spanish with English subtitles

Amateurs, Stars and Extras or The Labor of Love looks at the invisible work of care through a mix of situations linked to household labour in culturally diverse contexts. The video presents different groups of people discussing their working conditions: from the domestic workers’ syndicate in Mexico City, to a migrant worker from Beirut. The footage straddles the blurred line between staging and behind-the-scenes conversations to observe the dark side of the pillar that sustains the capitalist economy: the devalued and underpaid domestic work, mainly performed by women. Amateurs, Stars and Extras or The Labor of Love is a layered film where the set of filmmaking becomes an open space for thinking and generating politics, leisure and resistance: What is work, and how can we resist it? In a continuous dialectic between work as representation and the representation of work and its exploitations, the film has an optimistic take on collectivities and collective political projects.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Marwa Arsanios (in English).

• Sektion Section: Artist in Focus. Marwa Arsanios
• Programm Programme: Programme 4