Director: ELEONORE DE MONTESQUIOU
Sound: PHONIC PSYCHOMIMESIS
Participants: GALINA TRAUMANE, AUSMA SMILTNIECE and MIKHAIL BOGDANOV
black and white
length: 18 min
length: 18 min
Language: Russian with English subtitles
Translation and reviewing
Brent Klinkum, Nina Kuzmina, Agnese Luse,
Anastasija Petrova, Mara Traumane
Special thanks to
Gaļina Traumane, Mara Traumane
Agnese Luse, Rihards Brazinskis and Raitis Upens
The film is supported by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary
Art within the frame of SURVIVAL KIT 3 festival.
in Radiotehnika, Riga, 2011
in Radiotehnika, Riga, 2011
text excerpt:
It was 1991 and already our salaries weren’t being paid.
I was still working at the factory, where everything was in the process of collapsing. Naturally, the big bosses grabbed all they could, but ordinary employees were just waiting in vain for their little salaries.