Wasteland

«I stayed for six months among their shacks with my camera. At first, they kept asking: “What is it you want to film now?”, but by the end it had turned into: “How will we manage without you for so long, Don Andrei?”. 

And in between: a lot of dust; newly-born children; friendship with the 67-year-old Dica; Sonia's and Ciula's wish to go to school for the first time at the age of thirteen; the rain in July and the never-ending screening of what we'd filmed at Sia's bar, their amusement at seeing themselves and the amazement at how their rubbish didn't seem at all horrible on the screen. And at the fact that none of them seemed anything like as dirty there as they did in real life».