Invisible work has always been here. It is the creative contribution behind the great man’s invention, the editor who makes the Nobel prize possible, the unnamed colorists and inkers in pre‑digital comics and animation whose hands trained a generation’s visual imagination.

What does it mean that some of the most exquisitely sensitive films about constraint and moral courage—films that taught many viewers to notice class cruelty, emotional repression, and the quiet heroism of small acts—were created inside a system that often asked others to keep quiet, endure, and carry on? ​