CinemaOSMovie · 2025 · 0h 30m

The Hidden Shift

(Exhibit at The Mattress Factory art museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

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This film noir-inspired work began as a three-act play. Here it becomes juxtaposed with a documentary style "making of" film. It is both a film and a film about the making of that film. This cinematic device is further complicated by the casting of museum staff as the film's actors. What emerges is not just a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process but an intimate portrait of daily museum life. Alongside cast rehearsals and set building, we see staff using the copy machine, greeting visitors, and cracking jokes at a morning meeting. The result is a twisting metanarrative that dissolves the boundaries between art and labor, performance and production. Through its structure and story. The Hidden Shift invites viewers to grapple with complex questions surrounding capitalism, the meaning of work, and the precarity of the so-called 'creative class.

Directed byAlex Abrahams

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 30m
Language
EN
Released
November 22, 2025

Featuring

Cast & crew

7 credited
Starring

Anastassios Tzounopoulos

The Anarchist

Laura Barnes

The Capitalist

Joe Praksti

The Detective

Lizzie Ahlborn

The Secretary

Kaya Cammerata

The Union Leader

Natalie Miczikus

The Factory Worker

Taylor Pate

The Factory Worker

Creative team
Directed by
Alex Abrahams
Written by
Alex Abrahams
Ting Tong Chang
Produced by
Benny Shaffer

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