Work Songs
Directed by Mark Street
USA, 2019, 68 min, DCP
“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” – Studs Terkel
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The Docker PodcastDan is joined by documentary filmmaker Mark Street, and Maureen Gutierrez, an ILWU worker who appears on Mark's new project Work songs.
Labor goes to the Movies PodcastElise and Chris talk with director Mark Street, whose latest film is Work Songs, which travels across the country talking with ordinary working folks; cab drivers, a farmer, longshore-women, a barista.