Information:

"Work, Rest & Play - a musical film by People Like Us" is an entry from 2007

People Like Us - Work, Rest & Play (2007) is a video triptych exploring the themes of labour, leisure and industriousness.

Work, Rest & Play has been carefully constructed using industrial and documentary film footage from 1940-1975 to follow the endless chug of the conveyer belt of life. The film has been constructed as a triptych, where the whole is intended to be greater than the sum of the parts. Material from the Prelinger Archives and AV Geeks, two of the biggest ephemeral footage libraries in the world, has been pieced together in a symphony of movement and metamorphosis. Images of production lines, factories, and educational and creative industries, are sandwiched by those of the winding up and down processes of the day, the hours of leisure and relaxation, to illustrate the endless whirr of activity in our pursuit of meaning and happiness.

Commissioned by Lovebytes in collaboration with Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust.

Many thanks to UbuWeb for hosting this film.

More here - http://www.ubu.com/film/plu_work.html

work rest & play
workrestplay

People Like Us, chronologically

PLU news, releases, downloads and more - from 1992 to now!

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something PLU...

Many thanks to Ubuweb, PennSound, and WFMU for hosting the tracks on this site to make it more accessible for more people to download for free.

We strongly believe in the power of profit through free distribution, and the publicity that comes along with that - so we are putting our money where our mouse is. Often people have never heard of an artist because they aren't being distributed through as many channels as they should be, due to the very poor state of music/media distribution for non-major label music coupled with ignorance of the way that avant garde art forms infiltrate mainstream culture. Also many prints of a work are allowed to go out of circulation or are deleted for no reason other than cost effectiveness by a label/publisher. This makes perfect sense financially, but no sense whatsoever that a year's work by an artist should also disappear for such reasons. So get all of this while you can, and we completely endorse getting one's work out there, no matter what. If you don't share, your profit is limited.

We encourage all creative use of our work, and although we don't encourage duplicating of our work for commercial use you are welcome to share as mp3s or sample.

People Like Us - "Work, Rest & Play - a musical film by People Like Us"

Information:

People Like Us, chronologically

Timeline: previous / next

Search me...

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something PLU...