Well Done (documentary)
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| German title | Well done |
| Original title | Well done |
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| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German , German |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 75 minutes |
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| Director | Thomas Imbach |
| script | Thomas Imbach, Monika Gsell |
| production | Thomas Imbach, Bach in film |
| music | Peter Bräker |
| camera | Jürg Hassler, Thomas Imbach |
| cut | Thomas Imbach, Jürg Hassler |
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Mirjam Langhans: Goldcard clerk, Marco de Luca: Product Manager, Maja Bertossa: Head of Department, Walter Winkler: PC Supporter, Gerda Schmidheiny: Key Account Manager, Ueli Kunz: Director | |
Well Done is a documentary by the Swiss director Thomas Imbach . It documents the everyday life of a Swiss telebanking company . The director followed the company's characters with the camera for months and uses thematic sequences to show their behavior and feelings in the everyday office life of an IT company in Zurich, which is determined by electronic technologies. Well Done premiered at the 1994 Solothurn Film Festival; he won the Fipreschi Prize in the competition at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film .
action
1994: In a Swiss high-tech company, over 1200 people are employed to control the daily billions in Swiss money transactions in the form of endless data streams. Individual figures emerge from the mass of employees in the labyrinthine building. The camera follows the inconspicuous gestures, ways of speaking and looks of the PC supporter, the key account manager, the Goldcard clerk, the product manager, the department head, the director. A serial montage interweaves the protagonists' everyday life into a dense picture-sound structure. The viewer is immersed in a world in which the subtle violence of electronic technologies shapes interpersonal communication and leaves traces in private spaces.
background
Well Done portrays a Swiss telebanking company as an exemplary place in the post-industrial world of work. It is 1994 and everyday office life takes place in front of the computer and above all on the phone. The colloquial language is permeated by the ubiquitous business English, while the architecture of the offices and the deserted corridors are reminiscent of futuristic landscapes. Well Done makes it clear that the totality of an economized world has long since grasped the private, and that efficiency and utility considerations prevail there as well as in the world of capital itself.
Reviews
“It is also unusual that the individual should not be recognizable as an individual, but as a member of a group, defined by work contexts. [...] But it is fascinating how the film is staged as a sensual event. Thomas Imbach has already demonstrated a pronounced sense for rhythm and color effects in restlessness. Color and rhythm are the determining elements of Well Done as well. (Abstract)"
"Without any lament, but with absurd comedy, Well Done demonstrates the total domination of our economic system: from the operator who speaks to colleagues in customer jargon, to managers who still calculate while jogging, to employees who are already working with their son conducts a kind of qualification interview in secondary school. So not a film about the office world, but about our lives - one of the best in a long time. "
Web links
- Well Done in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Well done at Bach in film