While home office became an everyday option, Good Life is a gentle and critical look at a co-living startup, where the vision for 24/7 integration of work, networking, self-management and private life is being tested with even higher, limitless and global ambition. Guided by observations and questioning of the two female directors, the new world of innovation, insecure jobs, efficiency, flexibility and personal adaptation is put under test. What happens when corporate storytelling becomes part of one’s innermost self and community becomes a commodity?
Written and directed by: Marta Dauliūtė and Viktorija Šiaulytė
Produced by: Marta Dauliūtė and Viktorija Šiaulytė, MDEMC (Sweden)
Co-producers: Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, Just a moment (Lithuania), Niklas Kullström, Hillstream Pictures (Finland)
Cinematography: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Editing: Niklas Kullström
Sound design: Vytis Puronas
Music: Rasmus Hedlund
International Sales: Syndicado Film Sales Swedish distribution: Draken Film
Screened at among others at:
- Göteborg Film Festival 2022, Best Nordic Documentary nominee
- Hot Docs 2022 - Festival international Jean Rouch - Comité du film ethnographique, Paris 2023 AWARD: Research Teams prize Immersion du regard - Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2022 - IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht 2022 - Inconvenient Films - Nepatogus kinas, Vilnius 2022 - KÅKÅ/Nomics, Stavanger 2022 - Budapest Architecture FF 2022 - Film a architektura, Prague 2022 - Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, São Paulo 2023 - Brooklyn Film Festival 2023
- Cinetekton Festival Int Cine y Arquitectura, Puebla, Mexico 2030
- Ameisen Urbanismus, Filmcasino, Wien 2023. With Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer.
- Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, in collaboration with IASPIS, Tusen kulturhus/Kungl. Konsthögskolan, MDEMC, Draken film, Konstfrämjandet Stockholm and Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus. Panel talk with Miguel Robles-Durán, Tor Lindstrand and Majsa Allelin.
- nGbK, Berlin 2023. Discussion moderated by Janine Sack and Florian Wüst.