HOUSEWARMING

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.