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WAITING WORKING HOURS

By Ben DE RAES

Documentary - Completed 2019

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary, Experimental
- Countries
- BELGIUM
- Director(s)
- Ben DE RAES
- Producer(s)
- Elisa HEENE (Serendipity Films), Ellen DE WAELE (Serendipity Films)
- Synopsis
- In a street in Brussels, day laborers are looking for a job for one day. Gathered in groups, they wait for hours until a white van picks them up. Employers pay small salaries and no social security is provided. Their testimonies give a voice to clandestine workers. Digital images from the street, made with recordings from Google Streetview, are mixed with their voices. Together they form a constructed dialogue about labor and economics, in a multitude of languages. The immobile world of Google Streetview is like the standstill that the workers experience when they are waiting for hours.
  
  Together with the workers, Waiting Working Hours examines and questions their current situation, their thoughts on labor and their dreams for the future.