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AMERICAN SWEATSHOP
Daisy works as a content cleaner: her job is to watch and delete problematic videos online. Constantly being confronted with the dark underbelly of the internet is making the 25-year-old increasingly numb. Until she comes across a particularly disturbing video that she cannot get out of her head. Daisy decides to hold the video’s creators to account, but neither her boss nor the police take her seriously. So she sets out on her own to track down the perpetrators, only to find herself increasingly in the crosshairs.
In her feature film debut, Uta Briesewitz uses powerful, precise visual language to highlight the psychological exploitation of this new class of digital workers, who have not yet been replaced by AI simply because it cannot feel emotional pain (“They’re paying us for our pain”). Repeatedly featuring striking visual ideas, AMERICAN SWEATSHOP not only vehemently addresses these completely unacceptable working conditions, but also the effects of excessive social media consumption, which is partly caused by unregulated Big Tech algorithms.