{"product_id":"night-labor","title":"Night Labor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0133\/2562\/files\/carn.png?v=1768588754\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca title=\"Community Screenings Form\" href=\"https:\/\/www.collectiveeye.org\/pages\/host-a-screening\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0133\/2562\/files\/WebsiteButton_3bb924f4-b7af-47a7-98d9-8c2765d50eb0_480x480.jpg?v=1718641924\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6px; float: start;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDirected by: \u003c\/strong\u003eD. Redmon \u0026amp; A. Sabin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReleased:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2026 (educational)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYear of Production:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2017\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRunning Time: \u003c\/strong\u003e62 min\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubtitle Options:\u003c\/strong\u003e English Closed Captions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSubjects: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLabor Studies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e        \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNight Labor follows Sherman Frank Merchant, a forty-six year old 6'6\" Downeaster during his transition from an independent and rugged clam digger by day to manning a factory at night. With his white smock, arsenal of knives, and signature black beret, Sherman performs the tasks of preparing and arranging tools for the day laborers who arrive to their 6am shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNight Labor is an intimate experience of what the film critic J. Hoberman calls “situation documentary,” a blending of minimally structured narratives with documentary moments and long takes that elide conventional narrative and plot in favor of mood, lyrical entertainment, and banal mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNight Labor is a beautifully photographed story that fuses drama and tension in the mundane sensory experiences of work, ultimately relying on cinema’s most basic powerful elements: image and sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e              \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecial Jury Prize, Visions du Reel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest Canadian Feature, Special Jury Prize, RIDM\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecial Mention, Docudays\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecial Mention, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemaonthebayou.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCinema on the Bayou\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePress\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Night Labor\u003c\/em\u003e, by \u003ca title=\"Search Artforum.com for  David Redmon\" href=\"http:\/\/artforum.com\/search\/search=%22David%20Redmon%22\" class=\"service\"\u003eDavid Redmon\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca title=\"Search Artforum.com for  Ashley Sabin\" href=\"http:\/\/artforum.com\/search\/search=%22Ashley%20Sabin%22\" class=\"service\"\u003eAshley Sabin\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem\u003eGirl Model\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDowneast\u003c\/em\u003e), is a collection of vignettes from the life of a rangy, raw-boned Mainer who leaves his hermit’s hollow to work the lonely night shift at a lobster processing plant. Save for the sound of its subject’s Popeye-like under-his-breath muttering as he goes about his rounds, the film is almost entirely free of dialogue, though it has a simple but totally engrossing, process-oriented hook—watching the preparation of a factory floor, we see the readying of mysterious implements whose use will only become evident at the film’s climax.\" \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/artforum.com\/film\/id=43388\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eArtforum\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Though it chronicles a quotidian workday, every shot of David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s Night Labor is an opportunity for revelation.\" \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.filmcomment.com\/entry\/festivals-camden-international-film-festival\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFilm Comment\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Night Labor\u003c\/em\u003e is a lingeringly powerful film – the perfect capper to an enjoyably discombobulating day at \u003cspan class=\"caps\"\u003eRIDM.\" Adam Nayman, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/povmagazine.com\/blog\/view\/ridm-dispatch-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePOV Magazine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e        \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the filmmakers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e            \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilmmaking duo David Redmon and Ashley Sabin together produce, direct, photograph and edit critically acclaimed cinematic documentaries that have screened internationally in festivals and on television worldwide at Telluride, Sundance, Toronto, Cinema du Reel, Rotterdam, Visions du Reel, RIDM, MoMA, Telluride, and Viennale Film Festivals and on PBS, POV, BBC, CBC, DR, ARTE, and NHK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir body of work includes Kim’s Video whereby they play with the forms and tropes of various cinema genres as co-director David Redmon sets off on a quest to find a legendary lost video collection of 55,000 movies in Sicily. Four “animal ethnography” films based in the world of donkeys and funded by the Leverhulme Trust: \u003cem\u003eSanctuary\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), \u003cem\u003eDo Donkeys Act?\u003c\/em\u003e(2017), \u003cem\u003eChoreography\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), and \u003cem\u003eHerd\u003c\/em\u003e (2015); two dream\/memory cinema poems Sentient 1 \u0026amp; 2 (2015\/2016); a 6 minute snowbound ballet mécanique, \u003cem\u003eNeige\u003c\/em\u003e (2016); a suite of U.S. post-industrialization themed films set inside three interconnected factories on the coast of Prospect Harbor, Maine: \u003cem\u003eDowneast\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), \u003cem\u003eNight Labor\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), and \u003cem\u003eKingdom of Animal\u003c\/em\u003e(2012); a feature documentary about the labyrinthine world of teenage modeling in which a New York based scout recruits Siberian teenagers to the Tokyo model market \u003cem\u003eGirl Model\u003c\/em\u003e (2011); a film linking China and New Orleans through globalized manufacturing of cheap throwaway goods for American leisure pursuit, \u003cem\u003eMardi Gras: Made in China\u003c\/em\u003e (2005) and two “carnivalesque” character driven films set in Louisiana \u003cem\u003eKamp Katrina\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and \u003cem\u003eInvisible Girlfriend\u003c\/em\u003e (2009). 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