WRITING URBAN PLACES
Would you call yourself a kombinats?
Directors
Agata Kochaniewicz
Dorina Pllumbi
Elina Alatalo
Sidorela Vatnikaj
Contact
Dorina Pllumbi
D.Pllumbi@tudelft.nl
2023
Albania
14 min 55 sec
Color
Following the collapse of the Socialist regime in 1991, the Stalin Textile Factory, commonly known as Kombinat, fell into a state of abandonment. Once the pride of the party-state, the majority of the disused industrial buildings, were occupied by squatters that turned them into housing. The film provides a glimpse into the community life that developed within these appropriated structures. Despite a prevailing sense of stigma and uncertainty, the story depicts the collective capacity to create a life in these ghost terrains.
Director
Film authors are the participants of the training school: Tirana and Kamza – the planned, the unplanned, and everything in between.
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Showtimes
8 Aug @ 20:30
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