Work Different
2023 · 50m · Canada
Directed by Julien Capraro
Genres: documentary
Tones: contemplative, humorous
This documentary examines how remote work developed, how working from home has changed jobs and daily life, and what benefits and uncertainties the shift leaves unresolved.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A 50-minute doc about remote work sounds like the least subversive premise imaginable—but if Capraro's found a way to weaponize the mundane against itself, to make WFH anxiety actually *weird*, then maybe there's something here worth the time.
Capraro situates this squarely in the documentary lineage of workplace observation—Wiseman's methodical eye, maybe a touch of Pennebaker's humor—and the formal discipline of examining a generational shift through humorous and contemplative registers suggests a filmmaker thinking carefully about how form carries argument.
The real question is what formal choice Capraro makes to sustain attention across 50 minutes of remote work life; if it's a particular editing rhythm, a sound design decision, or a single interview moment that reframes the whole premise, that's where the film either vanishes or becomes essential.