Rockport Film Festival 2009

Body Job is a meditation on inspired physicality in the workplace. It is a profile of three people--a scientist, farmer, and preacher--who bring an extraordinary physical approach to their jobs. Body Job shows concrete examples of people moving on the job, therefore re-framing the way office workers, their employees, and workers in general imagine the workplace and their physical presence in it.Dr. James Levine, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic, burns calories as he walks on a treadmill all day long—he has created an 'Office of the Future' complete with computer desktop; Farmer Bill Kazokas breaks down the body mechanics of gardening; and Reverend James Forbes delivers his sermons with an acute sense of physical & spiritual awareness. We see in the film that integrating physical activity on the job not only fulfills the characters personally, but also translates into a social mission. The farmer aims to spread the gospel of organic farming to a national audience; the scientist works to alleviate obesity on an international level; and the minister uses his powerful pulpit to urge his NYC congregants to “listen to the body.”