„Work Song – As Time Goes By” (2016) is a musical film about a fictional casting situation, featuring two original songs composed specially for the film and several adaptations, with the underlying theme of employment and unemployment.

The film features an open mic audition, where performers competing in a particular genre stage their own production, adapting their act to real or perceived expectations. The successive scenes – the various songs, poems and proses – do not cohere into a single story, but they do address the same issues: the limitations and possibilities, lifestyles and perspectives of working and non-working people. Two opposite approaches are confronted: existence through work as an exclusive system of relations, and the condition of unemployment as a valid default position.

“Work Song – As Time Goes By”, 2016
Musical film, full HD, stereo, 55′
Written and directed by Hajnal Németh
The songs „Work Song” and “Absolution” were composed by Brian Ledwidge Flynn.
Featuring: Gábor Altorjay, Desney Bailey, Knut Berger, Timothy Beutler, Polina Borissova, Christian Bringzen, Gidon Carmel, Matthew Dal Din, István Dankó, Francesco De Rosa, Lea Draeger, Gergely Eortzen Nagy, Simon Fagan, Júlia Koffler, Gergely László, Lilla von Puttkamer, Sára Stenczer, Árpád Széll and Albert Orgon

Video still by István Imreh

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