Well Done

Awards

Leipzig DOK Festival (1994) – Winner: FIPRESCI Prize

Zurich Film Awards (1994) – Winner: Zurich Film Award

Feature

International

Award Winning With Guest

Year(s) Shown

1999

Director(s):

Thomas Imbach

Country:

Switzerland

Year:

1994

Duration:

75 min

Language(s):

English, Swiss German, German

Format(s):

35mm

At last! An intelligent and more-than-creative documentary on life behind large banking corporations. Imbach gets to the heartbeat of what it means to work in a high-tech, high-powered industry with this devastatingly articulate and innovative work.

Well Done cuts directly to the subtext of working life: as the tirade of statistics, numbers, deadlines are punctuated by a sideways glance, the tapping of a red fingernail, a burst of laughter, we are asked to examine the moments of human quirk that crack the facade of ‘professionalism’.

With furious editing finesse and an almost-too-close handheld camera, Imbach leads us on an absurd and passionate vendetta against the right of big business to control human lives.