We follow workers performing routine tasks seemingly indefinitely. The landscape, ravaged by violence and destruction, looks like the setting in a dystopian sci-fi movie. As we move in closer, we begin to grasp what we are seeing and realize it is a road construction site – the more details appear, the more the complexity of this reality emerges. An observation of progress, more than can be achieved in a day’s work.
The road connects the territories of five different armed groups, including government forces, engaged in the ongoing conflict in Burma/Myanmar. Collaboration on its construction marks one of many small steps towards peace and progress in the context of the world’s longest running civil war.

A Day’s Work is a short documentary film and installation without dialogue. Consisting of two channels, or a split screen, it presents two different perspectives, sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous. Distant, slow and well composed aerial shots give the bigger picture, offering an otherwise unprecedented perspective. Focusing on single actions without much context, they stand in stark contrast to the handheld close-ups of the laborers going about their work.

“Hong Kong, Ga Yau” is a catchphrase meaning “Come on Hong Kong!”. The documentary tells the story of a popular protest, the attempt to resist the growing influence of the Chinese Communist Party into Hong Kongers’ daily lives.
The movement was triggered by a proposed law that would have allowed the extraditions to mainland China of Hong Kong citizens, but soon it morphed into a larger revolt against China’s control over the semi-autonomous city.
Clashes between riot police and protesters often erupted during rallies calling for democratic freedoms and independent inquiry into the police behaviour.
 Protesters are questioning the Sino-British Joint Declaration: the 1997 deal between London and Beijing based on the principle of “one nation – two systems”,
 an architecture meant to preserve Hong Kong’s lifestyle and freedoms in the framework of a nation ruled by the strong grip of the Chinese Communist Party.
Things are changing very fast, and the policies imposed by Beijing are shrinking Hong Kong’s liberties and shaping the way of life of its population. 
Into the frameset of the harshest economic and geopolitical confrontation between the USA and China, rallies and marches calling for democratic freedoms became the expression of discontent, likely to reverberate for a long time.