This is a film where the protagonist wakes up in Tirana in 1973 and faces a series of survival dilemmas and decisions. The film reconfigures archival propaganda footage from Albania’s communist regime alongside sequences from Mao’s China. The pictorial information is reiterated as a dilation of time, where an object such as a bottle of Maotai liquor becomes a thread connecting different times and spaces. With each return, the footage takes on a new function, at times presented as it is, at other times redirecting attention to a detail that might otherwise go unnoticed.
