POWER TRIP
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| Direction: |
Paul Devlin |
| Cinematography: |
Paul Devlin, Valery
Odikadze |
| Editing:
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Julie Janata |
| Producer:
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Paul Devlin |
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Video Colour 85'
USA,
2003 | |
In an environment of pervasive
corruption, amid assassinations and street riots,
the story of a chaotic transition from communism
to capitalism is told through culture clashes,
electricity disconnections and blackouts. AES
Corp., the massive American "global power
company", has purchased the privatised electricity
distribution company in Tbilisi. AES manager Piers
Lewis must now get it through to the Georgian
people that, in this new, capitalist world,
customers have to pay for their electricity. The
Georgians, meanwhile, from pensioners to the
Energy Minister, keep devising new and smarter
ways to get it for free...
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