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Struggle Series: Austrian Cinema [Nov 29 - Dec 7 2006] Director: Ruth Mader, Country: Austria, Release: 2003, Runtime: 74 Co-written by Barbara Albert, this is a sobering and tough-minded look at the world of work and use value. We follow the fortunes of a Polish immigrant (Alexandra Justa) as she struggles to make a living for herself and her daughter, picking strawberries, gutting turkeys and cleaning houses. What’s remarkable about Mader’s approach is the intensity of her focus and concentration on the details of manual labor for undocumented workers — the procedures, the repeated movements, the lack of fellowship. Mader’s immersion in the world of work has a double impact — documentary precision and a sober attunement to movement that becomes strangely mesmerizing. Justa’s face — apparently impassive but reflecting the numbing terror of subsistence living — and lean physique are in perfect harmony with Mader’s concentrated filmmaking.

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