A Day's Work | BLOCK M

They arrive at a factory with work boots and tin lunch pails. What kind of manufacturing is this? After a long day they head home. Is this some kind of joke - or just a different kind of hard work?

Narrative Short | 8 minutes

Director Biography - Marta Renzi

Since 2005, Marta has directed over 3 dozen short films, completing her debut feature film Her Magnum Opus, in 2017. She has received 7 NEA Choreographic Fellowships, and a New York Dance & Performance Award (a "Bessie"), as well as funding from Metropolitan Life, the Jerome Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Awarded by Dancing in the Streets as a "fearless explorer" in 1995, her Project Co. took every opportunity to perform outdoors for free including yearly appearances at venues like Lincoln Center Out of Doors and SummerStage in Central Park. Renzi was a resident choreographer twice at The Yard, and at Jacob's Pillow, where she helped inaugurate its Inside/Out program. Marta is a 2013 Bogliasco Fellow, a RAW supported artist, and in 2019 was the only filmmaker selected for the inaugural Mabel Residency at the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Rhode Island. Twice in the 80's Renzi was commissioned to direct half-hour videodances which were broadcast on PBS. During the pandemic she premiered her 6th commissioned dance film for a university dance company, and directed two versions of The Nutcracker Suite, one of which airs on RI PBS yearly. She has collaborated in theater (Andre Gregory), circus (Cecil MacKinnon) and film (John Sayles), and danced with David Gordon, Douglas Dunn, Kei Takei and with Twyla Tharp in Hair.