Debt Machine documents the operation of oppressive mechanisms that reproduce crisis of household finances. Decades of underemployment and racist discrimination in housing, education and access to services, put Roma and other precarious workers in a situation, where any life event, such as illness, temporary loss of income or separation from a partner, translates into a risk of falling into arrears and a need to turn to credit to get by.

Directors: Barbora Cernusakova, Janet Brandon

Animator: Janet Brandon

Researcher: Barbora Cernusakova

Production Assistant: Brandon Clarke-Cham

Music by: DIY-Note - Conte Encourte CC https://shorturl.at/vFM49

SFX: YleArko

This animation is part of a research project Invisible Workers: Czech Roma and racial capitalism. Further information at https://ostravart.com/

This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34120