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31 min.
b&w
Russian with EnglST
2010
with
Dora Grafova and ekaterina Moskalenko
Vabrik is a film about the image of the factory more than the factory itself: textile manufacture in Estonia on the river border with Russia. "Vabrik", "factory" in Estonian, evokes the history of industry in the mid-nineteenth century to today. The images show the passages of the Soviet economy - in Estonia since 1944 - to the capitalist economy with its current limitations: factories closed because it can not continue to occur, we have moved from an economy in brandmaking technocrat and offshoring. The manufacture is still standing, like a dinosaur is dying slowly. Several hundred workers are still working, whereas before the privatization of perestroika were 15,000.
The factory was the vital center of the city of Narva, all families worked for generations on its territory. There were clinics, nurseries, schools, libraries ... With some beautiful images of soft propaganda of the years 60-70s and later with my images tracing the last days of the factory, my film questions this image of the factory and how one can understand ist current developments. From my pictures, first - the rooms are already, weaving images of the past because the rooms were closed and the second - in units of printing, sewing and packaging are almost desperate, because these are the latest scores workers facing dismissal.