Length: 9 min Year of production: 2026 Language: No dialog
Synopsis
Shot entirely from a single Kathmandu balcony over several years, Workers Over Time is an experimental, observational documentary that transforms ordinary labor into a study of human effort. From road construction to the daily harvest of livestock feed, the film uses split-screen editing to reveal how mundane, repetitive routines slowly erect the systemic structures defining our world.
My artistic practice employs a spare, frugal observational methodology, utilizing personal recordings to examine the quiet mechanics of human labor and spatial change.
Workers Over Time serves as a direct conceptual follow-up to my short film As Day Goes By (2024). Where the earlier work observed a single summer day, Workers Over Time expands that inquiry across several years, shifting focus from individual character arcs to the cumulative rhythms of working-class labor amidst a rapidly transforming landscape.
Filmed from a fixed balcony of my hometown Kathmandu, the project maintains a deliberate distance between filmmaker and subject. This recurring vantage point frames the mundane, allowing minute, incremental transformations to reveal themselves over extended duration. By placing disparate temporal moments and spatial perspectives side by side through split-screen juxtaposition, the film uncovers structural relationships invisible within a single frame. The work invites active spectatorship, asking viewers to bridge the gaps, observe the quiet endurance of physical work, and consider how systemic infrastructure quietly emerges from daily routines.
