Program Note
Four interconnected stories center around the modern work landscape–-the hustle culture of a Multi-level Marketing business, the endless repetitiveness of a food delivery driver, the online horrors of a content moderator, and the unionization of a familiar-feeling coffee shop. GRIND shows what it means to be a worker in a world defined by wealth inequality and ruled by endlessly greedy oligarchs, one not so far removed from our own. Grind is an ambitious horror anthology, directed by Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty, and Chelsea Stardust, taking us on a journey through the worst parts of our modern capitalist culture. Comprised of four shorts, MLM, Delivery, Content Moderation, and Union Meeting, the film delivers with tongue-in-cheek (as well as pervasive) criticism of our workplace culture, with perfect harmony of comedy and horror. Unsettling, sometimes tasteless, and always funny, Grind is the directors' affirmative statement on the current state of American society. (Jongsuk Thomas Nam)