MINE DE RIEN

of BARANI Christian, REYNARD Guillaume

FRANCE, 2005, 01:24:00

Production : BARANI Christian, REYNARD Guillaume
Genre : Documentary, Creative documentary
Keyword : Experimental, Homage, Industry, Memory, Poverty, Portrait, Society, City

Summary :
Karaganda, Kazakhstan’s second-largest city, located to the south of the steppes, was built in 1930 by displaced prisoners over a coalifield in an immense goulag. Today, the basis of the city’s economy is
disappearing, leading to considerable impoverishment. “mine de rien” documents a time of instability, of transition between two states, feeling abandonment and capitalist hope. A state that has passed
and a state which is just starting, intangible, inevitable.
The film follows this transition, which generates chaos, adaptation and suffering, revealing the impossibility of being : at a time when human beings can no longer be considered as a mass, but a sum of individuals. En exploding population mapped over the geographical structure of the city.

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