SYNOPSIS

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The street “Diksmuidelaan” is a street in Brussels where day laborers are looking for a job for one day. Gathered in small groups, they wait for hours until a white van picks them up. They get dropped off at a construction site or field. Employers pay small salaries and no social security is provided.

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With personal their testimonies Waiting Working Hours wants to give a voice to clandestine workers. Digital images from the “Diksmuidelaan”, made with recordings from Google Streetview, are mixed with the voices from these workers. 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.

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Together with the workers, Waiting Working Hours examines and questions their current situation and their dreams for the future.

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CREDITS

Written & directed by  Ben De Raes
Producer  Elisa Heene & Ellen De Waele

Editor  Constanze Wouters

Editing advise  Fairuz & Elias Grootaerts

Sound design  Simonluca Laitempergher

Sound mix  Luca Leprotti

Grading  Lennert De Taeye

In co-production with  Dagvrom & Argos Centre for Audiovisual Arts

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WITH THE SUPPORT OF

Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) &

Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC)

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FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS

Encounters Film Festival 2019  Worldpremiere

Beursschouwburg 2019  Belgian premiere

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