Men at Work

The film depicts the daily routine of 35 men working for one of the last remaining governmental institutions in Austria that only employ men. Their responsibility is to look after a 40km stretch of one of Europe’s biggest transit routes, the A1. Inspired by the poem of one of the road workers, the film is a sensitive journey to the world of pure masculinity, camaraderie and team spirit.

Christine Moderbacher

Christine Moderbacher is a visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker (MA in visual anthropology/documentary film at the University of Manchester). She completed her PhD at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen and is currently part of the Max Planck Research Group “Alpine Histories of Global Change: Time, Self, and the Other in the German-Speaking Alpine Region” in Halle, Germany. Her documentary films A Letter to Mohamed (SIC/CVB Brussels) and Red Earth White Snow (Pinanona Production Vienna) have been shown at international film festivals and have received a number of prizes.