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Film

What’s Important Now Is To Feel Bad

During a compulsory information meeting for unemployed people, the friendly face of a ridiculous, Kafkaesque bureaucracy exposes the truth behind unemployment. (Unemployed people act as a deterrent to the rest of the population: to remain in their poorly paid jobs and to continue consuming).

The bored Job Centre coach explains the NAIRU model. NAIRU is the level of unemployment that is necessary in order to keep the inflation from rising. For this to be efficient, it is of uttermost importance for the unemployed people to feel bad.

What’s Important Now Is To Feel Bad, film still, Eric Rusch as Job Centre manager.
Photo: Viktor Nyåker
What’s Important Now Is To Feel Bad, film still, extras, close-up.
Photo: Viktor Nyåker
What’s Important Now Is To Feel Bad, film still, information meeting for unemployed people.
Photo: Viktor Nyåker

Year: 2018
Genre: Drama, mockumentary
Duration: 4.41 min
Cast: Eric Rusch, Anders Almgren, Christina Nilsson, Frederikke Krogh, Jaqueline Chambel, Kico Madsen, Kristian Reuter Oliveberg, Minjeong Ko, Samira Motazedi, Tim Kristoffer Gunnarsson
Cinematography: Victor Nyåker
Sound: Ania Malgorzata Winiarska
Sound mix: Anders Billing Vive
Editing: Imad Abdalghani
Make-up: Jaqueline Chambel
Location assistant: Leia Sademyr
Poster: Barthélémy García
Consigliere: Nicolas Kolovos
Distribution: Filmform
With support from Konstnärsnämnden