The Kitchen

You've never heard of Jonathan Hoefler or Tobias Frere-Jones but you've seen their work. They run the most successful and respected type design studio...

Common sense says you can't make a living in America playing avant-garde improvisational jazz. But Ken Vandermark does it anyway. Among musicians, Va...

It is a fetish, a mantra, a secret religion to modern man: work. In times of the financial crisis and massive job reductions, this documentary movie q...

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East Germany...

36 year old welder Karin works at an agricultural factory in Mecklenburg, Germany.

Our premise is that work has become an act of self-sabotage. Empty corporate jargon, ever-changing management fashions and self-serving bureaucracy ma...

Work is becoming more service oriented and more and more services rely upon us doing harm to each other. In most people's lives, work operates as a d...

The gestures, the words, the rites of a day like any other in the offices of a large insurance company.

Short documentary on the shunters in the Darling Island, Sydney, Australia railyard. Filmed in 1977.

"Fim do Sem Fim" is a feature-length documentary that has as its backdrop the imminent disappearance of certain trades and professions in Brazil. Shot...

When illness forces her away from her beloved trauma cleaning business, Sandra Pankhurst faces up to her traumatic past and begins a search for her bi...

There is a popular theory that it takes at least 10,000 hours of focused practice for a human to become expert in any field. In Japan, there are craft...