Housewarming

Copyright artist(s) and courtesy argos

Artist(s)

Year

2016

Duration

00:33:30

Original format

DIGITAL FILE

Color

col.

Color system

PAL

Languages

Spoken: Albanian
Subtitles: English UK

Availability

Distribution
Collection

In a two-dimensional dystopian landscape of deserted half-built houses in Albania, a new mythology is in the making. The filmmakers, perhaps a contemporary incarnation of Goldilocks from the tale of the Three Bears, invade the houses and occupy their empty, liminal space and its missing furniture. The local community comments in song and speech about the new arrivals and their enterprise of an immigration in an opposite direction, from the full to the empty, from excess to lack.

Songs lyrics and dialogues are based on interviews conducted in Albania on May 2014. Shot on location in Paskuqan, Dukat, Tragjas, Nartë, Vajkan, Farkë, Shpërdet, Orikum, Lanabregas, Gërmenj i mad in 2014 and 2015.