The ambition, the burnout, and the person the job makes you. Shorts straight from the daily grind.
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Klipist is where short films find their audience. Hand-curated, independently run, watched in all 193 countries of the world. If you’ve made something great, we want to see it.
Work eats most of our waking hours, so it's no surprise it makes for sharp short films: the ambition, the burnout, the question of whether the job is worth the person you become doing it. These films are hand-picked, complete, and free to watch. Stories from the daily grind.
Adam Adamson: Licensed Realtor asks who you can trust to find your dream apartment, and Abgestempelt - Die Paragraphenreiter watches bureaucracy turn so devoted that nothing will stop them. (Manic)quin follows an unemployed Plan B junkie having difficult conversations with a mannequin, while Behind the Mask is a hilarious reflection on actors being the worst.
The best short films about work and career find the human cost in the day job. A Certain Method follows a struggling actress who kills at the audition of her life, and Artificial Dreams sits with a filmmaker's dilemma of being commercially successful. Editor-picked and free across all 193 countries, no subscription and no account. Press play, and clock off.
