Upon shifting to the Philippines, the Swedish director Samir Arabzadeh observed one thing that appeared fairly peculiar about on a regular basis life within the nation. Relatively than feeling the necessity to all the time look busy, workers typically fairly overtly and unabashedly slept whereas on the clock. In his brief documentary Powernapper’s Paradise, Arabzadeh units out to grasp this apply as somebody from a tradition that locations a premium on productiveness. Accumulating a sequence of portraits of stated on-the-job sleepers, Arabzadeh collates a broad vary of views that swirl round a single, shared understanding – a little bit of shuteye on the job is admittedly no massive deal. And, tugging tougher on the roots of the phenomenon, he finds a society that appears content material to maneuver at a leisurely tempo, and bored with being rushed right into a dashing world.
