Labour/Leisure
Labour/Leisure
| 23 March 2019 (USA)
Labour/Leisure Trailers

The Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia is marketed as a destination of leisure, recreation, retirement and wealth. Behind this facade is a largely invisible agricultural labour force, comprised of temporary migrant workers from the Global South. These workers are placed in a system that is inherently precarious and potentially exploitative, wherein their legal status is tied directly to their employer, with no path to permanent citizenship. While the workers pay into Canadian health care and pension plans, they do not benefit from these social goods as temporary citizens. This film aims to make this labour visible, while contemplating the prescribed aesthetics imposed on the landscape within the region. Formally, the film resides at the intersection of photography and the moving image, while embracing the generative structural limitations of early cinema.

Reviews
SmugKitZine

Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

... View More
ChampDavSlim

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

... View More
Adeel Hail

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

... View More
Isbel

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

... View More