Klodiana Millona

Earthmovers is a film essay examining the bulldozer as a significant tool of post socialists countries' embrace of neoliberalism, brutal wave of privatization and dispossession of commons.

A common effort in shifting attention from today's established notion of 'cinema' and its prevailing commodification, to ways of enabling the possibility of togetherness around film and performance. The program creates a communal space to experiment with (other) ways of watching together, shedding light on the importance of self-organized structures, especially in the current economic climate where such practices face hardship and even cease to exist.

In this feast the dining table is at the center, giving back to the kitchen its place as a fundamental space of dialogue, while challenging habits and re-thinking eating together, as a ritual of sharing and commoning. This dinner concludes its preceding long day workshop “Taking the kitchen's side” and activates its outcomes to a larger public. A human powered dinning that starts and ends with our bodies.

The workshop is organized in the format of a game which constructs a situation among users to interact and negotiate shared resources among each other in response to personal and common needs, promoting collaborative consumption, service distribution and sharing as a lifestyle.

Publication 2019 | European Capital of Culture 2020, Rijeka, Croatia Published by DAI-SAI and pdr-barcelona Starting off from the official narrative of Rijeka as an open multi-ethnic port, a historic porto franco and a contemporary post-industrial city, which is today boastfully embracing its title of the European Capital of Culture 2020, this publication investigates the ambivalent states of the city's current in between identity.