Night Shift is set in the crisis ridden rural Greek town of Mesolongi, and zeroes in on a fast-food joint and its staff as they brave yet another night shift. It shows the working rhythms of the workplace and follows the shop’s delivery girl as she rides her scooter around the empty streets of her hometown, delivering food to people’s homes.
Credits
Direction: Valentini Sambethai, Loukas Koumbouris
Screenplay – Scientific Supervision: Aliki Angelidou, Valentini Sambethai in collaboration with Lena Mantzouratou and Anthi Kogeorgou
Editing: Valentini Sambethai, Aliki Angelidou, Loukas Koumbouris
Aliki Angelidou
Aliki Angelidou is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University, Athens. Her research concerns the anthropological readings of global capitalism in Greece and the Balkans. She is the PI of the research project “Domesticating Global Capitalism: Household, Cooperatives and Power in a Post-Memoranda Greek Province” funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), within the framework of which the film “Night Shift” was made.
Loukas Koubouris
Loukas Koumpouris is a social anthropologist and filmmaker. He has participated in numerous ethnographic documentary productions. Previous films:
2017, Alima, Ethnographic documentary, co-directed with Nickolas Papadimitriou, 30 min.
Valentini Sampethai
Valentini Sampethai is a social anthropologist who also works with film. Her research revolves around labour relations and the state, particularly focusing on informalized work and gender.
Previous films:
2015, Speak Out, ethnographic documentary, co-directed with Mirja Brand and Simon A. Frey, 11 minutes.