Directed by:
ALINA KOTOVA, VLADLENA SANDU
In eight tableaux, we see stages and situations from the working life of a 1993-born Russian woman. Her jobs and tasks span from doing rounds to check who is present at work to being a brothel manager. In each workspace and situation, she and the workmates around her stare at the camera while a bleak commentary provides us with details regarding the context, delivering them as a string of keywords. “Graduated - now a journalist. Suicidal depression, paranoid delirium.” A livid portrait of a young woman who constantly on the verge of unemployment, EIGHT IMAGES… evokes the country’s 780 thousand university graduates who end up accepting jobs for which they are overqualified. (Ioana Florescu, BIEFF 2019)
