Film info: Well Done

Film Information

Original Title	Well Done
English Title
Director	Thomas Imbach
Country
Year	1994
Format	35 mm
Colour	Color
Duration	75 min

Production:

Guión: Thomas Imbach, Monika Gsell
Fotografía: Jürg Hassler, Thomas Imbach
Montaje: Thomas Imbach, Jürg Hassler
Producción: Thomas Imbach

Synopsis

What is the best way of portraying day-to-day work in a massive computer centre serving the financial community of Zurich? The answer: to spend months actually being there, observing it from inside, compiling and classifying 60 hours of film and then editing this material into seemingly unrelated components –without the slightest commentary– by means of hectic montage, cutting and slashing until the whole grand system dissipates to dust. The result is an absurd serial ballet à la Jacques Tati, presented in staccato format, that highlights the stress, alienation, materialism to which the modern world of the almighty computer exposes us. Thomas Imbach set himself the mammoth task of doing just that: producing fragmented images of phone calls, nervous fingers gliding across keyboards, sidelong glances, briefings, data, banking jargon and automatic gestures –all in order to highlight (not without bitterness) the loss of humanity inherent in the reign of marketing and electronics.