The Potato Eaters (2016)

The Potato Eaters is an alternative way of looking at economics, a pure and concentrated look at labor in response to the numerous existing quantitative studies. The Port of Antwerp at night and a series of letters by Vincent van Gogh combine in a poetic film that can be read as an interpretation of van Gogh's famous painting The Potato Eaters (1885). As the film does not consider processes of evolution or matters of efficiency, we come closer to the core of economy: human bodies at work and at rest, which are rarely seen in cinema in times of extensive dehumanized automation.